The wonders of modern mechanism. A résumé of recent progress in mechanical, physical, and engineering science (1896)
Cochrane, Charles Henry, 1856- · Philadelphia J.B. Lippincott · leaf 168
conom-ical. The machine that renders air serviceable as a motivepower is called an air-compressor. It looks much like asteam-engine, and usually there is a steam-engine cylinderincorporated in its meciianism at one end of its bed, while COMPRESSED-AIR MECHANISMS. 159 an air-cylinder occupies the… … THE RAND DIBECT-ACTING STEAM AIR-COJIPRESSOR. The best forms are of the horizontal duplex type of steam-eno;ine, with air-cvlinders behind and in line with thesteam-cylinders, and so coupled that one piston-rod servesfor both cylinders. Storage-tanks of compressed air for use in driving street-cars…
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