Excerpt from The Practical Mechanic's Journal, Vol. 2: April, 1866-March, 1867
Now, as before mentioned, it is with locomotive engines that the necessity of balancing the slide-valves is more especially felt, and owing to the generally contracted room in the steam-chest of this class of engines, especially those having inside cylinders, no scheme until very recently has been successfully applied to overcome the evil.
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