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English: A single acting Cornish pumping engine. Steam is initially admitted through valve A, and exhausted through valve C, as the piston descends. On the upward stroke A and C are closed and valve B, the equilibrium valve, allows steam to flow from the top of the cylinder to the bottom.
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Source Figure 373 on page 318 of Steam-Engine Theory and Practice by William Ripper, published by Longmans, Green and Co of London in 1899. Taken from the copy digitised by Google.
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