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The system affords the opportunity of adding yet more engines to the same propeller to an indefinite extent. The three cylinder intermediate-receiver compound engine, with one high and two low-pressure cylinders, the steam passing from the high-pressure cylinder into the receiver, and thence into the two low-pressure cylinders respectively.
The three great types of compound engines may be placed as follows in the order of their general acceptance by the shipowning community: The two-cylinder intermediate-receiver compound engine, having cranks at right angles.
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