No sooner had that illustrious inventor completed his double-acting engine, than he saw at a glance the vast field of its application.
His application was founded on the properties of Watt's double-acting engine, and could not have been used at all, until that instrument of universal application had received the last finish of its inventor.
Thus, by the end of the third quarter of the eighteenth century, the steam-engine had become generally introduced, and had been applied to nearly all of the purposes for which a single-acting engine could be used.
He worked at Dolcoath the 63-inch cylinder double-acting engine, upon Boulton and Watt's plan.
The double-acting engine, unlike the single-acting pumping engine, required a piston rod that would push as well as pull.
A little later he told a correspondent that his double-acting engine "acts so powerfully that it has broken all its tackling repeatedly.
Here we have three of the vital elements required toward the completion of the work: first, steam used expansively; second, the double-acting engine.
The double-acting engine; in which steam is admitted to press the piston upward as well as downward; the piston being also aided in its ascent as well as in its descent by a vacuum produced by condensation on the other side.
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