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第八章 The Industrial Revolution 工业革命 (第15/47页)
gine until 1733 under a joint patent.Newcomen’s engine appears to have been based on Papin’s experiments carried out 30 years earlier, and employed a piston and cylinder, one end of which was open to the atmosphere above the piston. Steam just above atmospheric pressure was introduced into the lower half of the cylinder beneath the piston during the gravity–induced upstroke; the steam was then condensed by a jet of cold water injected into the steam space to produce a partial vacuum; the pressure differential between the atmosphere and the vacuum on either side of the piston displaced it downwards into the cylinder, raising the opposite end of a rocking beam to which was attached a gang
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