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Description: James Watt's mechanisms for guiding the upper end of the piston rod of a double-acting engine (British Patent 1432, April 28, 1784). Top Figure 9, top left.
Title: James Watt's straight-line linkage
Credit: Figure 9.—Watt's mechanisms for guiding the upper end of the piston rod of a double-acting engine (British Patent 1432, April 28, 1784). Top left, straight-line linkage. Reproduced in Mechanical Inventions of James Watt, Volume III, James Patrick Muirhead, 1864. John Murray. Immediate source http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27106/27106-h/27106-h.htm Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt, Ferguson, Eugene S. An article in the United States National Museum Bulletin, 228, paper 27, pp. 185-230 Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1962
Author: James Watt
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