Excerpt from Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania, for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts, Vol. 40: Devoted to Mechanical and Physical Science, Civil Engineering, the Arts and Manufactures, and the Recording of American and Other Patent Inventions; July, 1860 Although this engine was unpopular, it is generally acknowledged to have been economical upon fuel. The Buckeye State was built in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1851 as a pas senger boat for Lake Erie. The engine, with the exception of the cylinder, was the ordinary condensing, vertical, overhead beam, with lifting air-pump. The small high pressure cylinder was directly within the large low pressure one, which thus had necessarily an annular pis ton; both pistons were connected to the same crosshead by three piston rods, one from the central and two from the annular piston. In this arrangement the steam was required to pass through pipes equal in length to the cylinders themselves after leaving the small piston before it could act upon the large one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.