File:USS Monadnock (1863) vibrating-lever engine.jpg

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English: Ericsson vibrating-lever engine of the American Civil War monitor USS Monadnock (1863). This type of engine had two horizontal annular or ring-shaped cylinders placed back-to-back, with pistons attached to hollow trunks containing the connecting rods. This image shows the port (left) trunk/connecting rod assembly almost at full extension, while the connecting rod and trunk of the starboard (right) cylinder is almost fully retracted.
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Source Hutton, Frederick Remsen (1897): The Mechanical Engineering of Power Plants, p. 53, John Wiley & Sons, New York; Chapman & Hall, London
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