A Descriptive History of the Steam EngineJohn Knight and Henry Lacey, 1824 - 228 pages |
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admitted 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 Desaguliers diameter EDWARD IRVING elasticity Elector of Hesse employed engraving equal erected expansion experiment feet Figure filled fire fixed formed Furnace gine heat honour Hornblower improvements inches ingenious injection invention inventor Jacob Perkins James Watt John Jonathan Hornblower Jonathan Hulls lever lever-beam London machine Marquis Marquis of Worcester mechanism mode moving Newcomen opened and shut operation Papin patent Phil pipe piston piston-rod placed plug-frame pounds pounds weight practice 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 Engine steam piston Steam wheel steam-tight stroke tappets tion Trevithick vacuum valve vapour vessel Watt Watt's weight