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- Subject: Re: lots o' questions&annotations for Mort
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- From: system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall)
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 20:24:20 NZST
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- kjackson@cix.compulink.co.uk (Keith Jackson) writes:
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- > introduced as steam is introduced into the top half. With a piston about
- > three feet in diameter you get a fair amount of shove, even at the *9psi*
- > the boilers produced. This pair of engines can pump a ton of water every
- > 10 seconds or so each!
- >
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- Was it Watt or Stevenson, who produyl showed off their new steam
- engine, and to demonstrate the precision engineering demonstrated that
- it was ONLY JUST possible to put a coin between the piston and the
- shaft!
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- Wayne McDougall, BCNU
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