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Epictetus, Works (ed. George Long) 2 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier 2 0 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 4. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 2 0 Browse Search
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th of center rib and outside flanges; the cylinder and pump ends of the beam are equal in length, each pair of beams weighs 42 tons. The beam vibrates on a main center or shaft c 20 inches diameter, 9 feet 8 inches long, with journals 15 inches diameter, and 19 1/2 inches bearing. The plummer-blocks, for the beam centers of both engines, rest in pedestals bolted to a massive cast-iron entablature, which (extending transversely across the house and into the brick walls) is supported by four Tuscan columns d of cast-iron, standing on and anchored to the beam wall, by means of arched cast-iron bed-plates, built in the masonry. The piston-rods are guided by parallel motions, and the pump connecting-rods by cross-heads and slides; pistonrods e 6 1/4 inches diameter and 16 feet long each; pump connecting-rods f 8 inches diameter and 28 feet long each. The pump-barrels are 36 inches in diameter each, plungers 36 inches diameter, with stroke same as steam-piston, 10 feet. The extreme li