Stuart's Descriptive History of the Steam EngineJohn Chidley, 1831 - 249 pages |
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admitted affusion air-pump apparatus applied Arthur Woolfe Atmospheric Engine attached axis beam boiler bottom cistern cold water communication condense the steam condensing Engine construction contrivance counterpoise crank Desaguliers diameter elasticity Elector of Hesse employed engraving equal erected expense experiment feet Figure filled fire fixed Furnace gine heat honour horizontal Hornblower improvements inches ingenious injection invention inventor Jacob Perkins James Watt Jonathan Hornblower lever lever-beam London machine machinery Marquis Marquis of Worcester Matthew Murray means mechanism mode moving Newcomen operation Papin parallel motion patent pipe piston piston-rod placed plug-frame pounds pounds weight pressed pressure prevent principle produced pump quantity raising water receiver reservoir revolving Richard Trevithick Robison Rotative engine ROTATORY ENGINE Savery Savery's Engine Saving fuel scheme shewn side Steam Engine steam piston Steam wheel steam-boat steam-tight stroke surface tappets tion Trevithick valve vapour vessel Watt Watt's weight