ery half stroke of the piston re- generation of steam and whence they can duced below the boiling point of the pre- be readily removed. vious instant. The successive half strokes This results from natural laws. All of the piston are followed by the cut-off matter free to move occupies positions of… … END VIEW END VIEW many times its own weight. Air, in shaped column of water rising at each only moderate motion piles up hills of half stroke and falling at each cut-off of sand, a substance two thousand times its steam, the balance of the water rising and own weight. Compressed steam has falling…
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