The Steam Engine Familiarly Explained and Illustrated With an historical sketch of its invention and progressive improvement; its applications to navigation and railways; with plain axioms for railway speculators

CHAPTER VI.

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DOUBLE-ACTING STEAM ENGINE.

The Single-acting Engine unfit to impel Machinery. -- Various Contrivances to adapt it to this Purpose. -- Double-Cylinder. -- Double-acting Cylinder. -- Various modes of connecting the Piston with the Beam. -- Rack and Sector. -- Double Chain. -- Parallel Motion. -- Crank. -- Sun and Planet Motion. -- Fly Wheel. -- Governor. 91