A Descriptive History of the Steam EngineKnight & Lacey, 1824 - 228 pages |
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admitted affusion air-pump apparatus applied Arthur Woolfe Atmospheric Engine attached axis beam boiler bottom cistern cock cold water communication condense the steam condensing Engine constructed contrivance crank Desaguliers descends diameter elasticity Elector of Hesse employed engraving equal erected expense experiment feet Figure fire fixed formed Furnace gine heat honour Hornblower improvements inches ingenious injection introduced invention inventor Jacob Perkins James Watt John Jonathan Hornblower lever lever-beam Lexicon Technicum London machine machinery Marquis of Worcester Matthew Murray mechanism mode moving Newcomen operation Papin patent Phil pipe piston-rod placed plug-frame pounds pounds weight pressed pressure principle produced pump quantity raising water receiver reservoir Richard Trevithick Robison Rotative engine ROTATORY ENGINE Savery Savery's Engine Saving fuel scheme shewn side Steam Boat Steam Engine steam piston Steam wheel steam-tight stroke surface tappets tion Trevithick vacuum valve vapour vessel Watt Watt's weight