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Excerpt from The Museum of Science and Art, Vol. 5
Crap. II.-17. Method of regulating the activity of the furnace. 18. How steam is made to produce a mechanical effect - 19. The cylinder and-piston. - 20. Metac pistons - 21. Estimate of the force with which the piston is moved. - 22. Transmission of this force-23. Piston rod - 24. Cocks, valves, and slides - 25. How employed - 26. Stroke of the engine - 27. Effective pres sure - 28. Supply of steam to the cylinder. - 29. By valves. 30. By slides - 31. Seaward's slides - 32. Single cock - 33. Four-way cock - 34. Low and high pressure, more properly called condensing and non-condensing, engines - 3 5. Objections to the latter and countervailing advantages. -36. Condensing engines. - 37. Condensing apparatus. - 38. Air -pump. - 39. Cold water pump. - 40. Hot water pump.
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