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Page 1203
... engines of large cylinder volume , and by paddle - wheel steamboat en- gines , to the exclusion of any other type . They open a large port area rapidly , and are very easily balanced . Two disks are secured to one vertical stem . The ...
... engines of large cylinder volume , and by paddle - wheel steamboat en- gines , to the exclusion of any other type . They open a large port area rapidly , and are very easily balanced . Two disks are secured to one vertical stem . The ...
Page 1204
... ENGINE ( q . v . ) . Porter , DAVID , U.S.N. , 1780-1843 . Commander Essex , 1812 , which took sundry British vessels , and was 1814 ; in the Mexican service 1826-29 ; U.S. Minister to from 1831. Cruise in the Essex , 1815 ...
... ENGINE ( q . v . ) . Porter , DAVID , U.S.N. , 1780-1843 . Commander Essex , 1812 , which took sundry British vessels , and was 1814 ; in the Mexican service 1826-29 ; U.S. Minister to from 1831. Cruise in the Essex , 1815 ...
Page 1205
... Engine . High - speed horizontal type of steam engine , embodying the improvements made upon the ALLEN ENGINE ( q.v. ) by Charles T. Porter . These were a weighted governor , by which sensitiveness was given to it , and the adoption of ...
... Engine . High - speed horizontal type of steam engine , embodying the improvements made upon the ALLEN ENGINE ( q.v. ) by Charles T. Porter . These were a weighted governor , by which sensitiveness was given to it , and the adoption of ...
Page 1233
... engine in which t steam is made to act directly upon the surface of the water be displaced for the forcing action , and its condensation by t water causes a vacuum in the pump chamber , which is fill through the suction pipe , by ...
... engine in which t steam is made to act directly upon the surface of the water be displaced for the forcing action , and its condensation by t water causes a vacuum in the pump chamber , which is fill through the suction pipe , by ...
Page 1234
... ENGINE . Pumpelly , RAPHAEL , b . 1837. American geologist ployed in the exploration of Yezo 1861 , and of the coal fie China 1864 ; in the survey of the copper regions and Mi 1870-73 ; member of U. S. Geological Survey from 1879 ...
... ENGINE . Pumpelly , RAPHAEL , b . 1837. American geologist ployed in the exploration of Yezo 1861 , and of the coal fie China 1864 ; in the survey of the copper regions and Mi 1870-73 ; member of U. S. Geological Survey from 1879 ...
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