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Treatise on the steam engine (1830)

Renwick, James, 1790?-1863 · New York, G. & C. & H. Carvill · leaf 222

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;for water may be raised, with an equal expenditure of fuel,nearly as high by condensations, in vessels placed at differ-ent levels, as it is by direct pressure of any intensity,however great. We have placed beneath a section of the engine of Sa-vary, which in its complete form was double, one… … I is the boiler in which the steam is generated. O, steam pipe, by which steam is conveyed to the vessel P. q q, pipe communicating with a reservoir beneath;through this pipe the water is raised to the vessel P, wherethe steam is condensed, by the pressure of the atmosphere. S, rising-pipe through…

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