Renwick, James, 1790?-1863 · New York, G. & C. & H. Carvill · leaf 232
able as the first in which steam of high ten-sion was made to act upon a piston. The first of these isliable to all the objections, that we stated in speaking ofSavarys engine. The second is far better, and even pre-ferable in many respects to the engine of Newcomen. Itis besides applicable to the… … Steam is generated in the boiler c, and flows thencethrough the pipe d, it is represented as passing through oneof the passages in a four-way cock, beneath the piston a,while the steam that had filled the other cylinder is escap-ing into the air through the passage e. The piston a worksa lever and…
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