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PORTER (Charles T.). A Treatise on the Richards Steam-Engine Indicator, (Manufactured by Elliott Bros., London,) and the Development and Application of Force in the Steam-Engine.1874

London: Longman, Green, Reader, and Dyer, Third edition, revised and enlarged, 8vo (215 x 135 mm), [2], 258, [2]pp., lacks front free endpaper, frontispiece, neat ownership stamp on title, errata slip, 2 folding diagrams and 65 diagrams in the text, 18 tables in the text, 3 folding tables at the end, inner hinges shaken, original cloth, slightly, head of spine slightly torn, spine lettered in gilt. The three folding lithograph diagrams at the end of the book, show the motion of the piston, corresponding with each 1 degree of motion of the crank, when the connecting-rod = 4, 5 and 6 cranks.

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