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air-pump ANTHONY TROLLOPE aperture arrangement atmosphere attached beam BEETON'S bottom centre Chacewater chimney cloth gilt coal cock combustion compounded locomotive compounded system condenser connected connecting-rod constructed contrivances crank cross-head Crown 8vo cylindered engine Dalswinton Denis Papin diagram in fig diameter eccentric effect Engravings expansive feet fire-bars fire-box flame flue force form of boiler fuel furnace Garden gear George Stephenson give half-calf heat high-pressure cylinder improvements increased interior introduced invention latent heat lever locomotive engine low-pressure cylinder lower machine Marquis of Worcester Mechanics and Mechanism motion movement moving obtained opened oxygen passing patent pipe piston piston-rod placed Plates port pound weight pounds practical present pressure principle pump railway raised safety-valve shown slide-valve spindle steam steam space steam-boat steam-engine steam-pipe stroke supplied surface tappets temperature Timothy Hackworth tubes vacuum valve vapour vessel volume Watt weight wheels William Symington


