A Text-book on Steam and Steam Engines: Specially Arranged for the Use of Science and Art StudentsC. Griffin, Limited, 1897 - 468 Seiten |
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... weight of coal consumed , was tested by Smeaton , in 1774 , and found to be about of what can now be realised by a modern pumping- engine . The loss of heat - energy , due to the alternate heating and cooling of the receiver , added to ...
... weight of coal consumed , was tested by Smeaton , in 1774 , and found to be about of what can now be realised by a modern pumping- engine . The loss of heat - energy , due to the alternate heating and cooling of the receiver , added to ...
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... weight of the atmosphere pressed the piston to the bottom of the cylinder . This was the first form of atmo- spheric engine the simplest and most powerful machine that had hitherto been constructed . After a great many laborious ...
... weight of the atmosphere pressed the piston to the bottom of the cylinder . This was the first form of atmo- spheric engine the simplest and most powerful machine that had hitherto been constructed . After a great many laborious ...
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... weight of the pump - rods , acting on the other end of the beam , brings the piston to the top of the cylinder . These second and third operations are repeated automatically by the tappet rod when the engine has been fairly started ...
... weight of the pump - rods , acting on the other end of the beam , brings the piston to the top of the cylinder . These second and third operations are repeated automatically by the tappet rod when the engine has been fairly started ...
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... weight on the same side of the fulcrum as the plunger , and the lever projected out on the other side of the fulcrum . The tappet rod , which was worked off the main beam , engaged with the projecting end of this lever when the piston ...
... weight on the same side of the fulcrum as the plunger , and the lever projected out on the other side of the fulcrum . The tappet rod , which was worked off the main beam , engaged with the projecting end of this lever when the piston ...
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... weight of counterpoises , which had hung on it from the first attempts of Newcomen , for the purpose of equalising the motion and producing the up - stroke . Watt says : " My second improvement upon steam or fire engines , consists in ...
... weight of counterpoises , which had hung on it from the first attempts of Newcomen , for the purpose of equalising the motion and producing the up - stroke . Watt says : " My second improvement upon steam or fire engines , consists in ...
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angle arrangement atmosphere back pressure blades bottom Boyle's law brass C₁ calorimeter cast-iron centre line circle clearance coal cock compound engine compression connected connecting-rod construction crank shaft crank-pin crosshead cubic feet curve eccentric efficiency equal evaporation Exam exhaust expansion figure fire-box fitted fixed flanges flues furnace gauge gear high-pressure cylinder holes horizontal horse-power inches diameter indicator diagram iron joint latent heat Lecture length lever locomotive low-pressure cylinder marine engine mean pressure metal motion nuts ordinary P₁ piston piston-rod plates position pump quantity of heat Réau revolutions per minute rings rivets S.S. St scale screw propeller shown side Sketch and describe slide valve speed square inch steam engine steam pipe steam port steam pressure steel stroke surface condenser temperature thick triple-expansion engines tube units of heat vacuum vertical vessel volume Water-Tube Boilers Watt's weight wheel wrought-iron
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Seite 44 - It is hardly necessary to add, that anything which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance ; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner the Heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be MOTION.
Seite 18 - Places Decimals for every Minute of Angle up to 100 of Distance. For the use of Surveyors and Engineers.
Seite 40 - Typical Metallurgical Processes.— The Micro-Structure of Metals and Alloys. — Economic Considerations. " No English text-book at all approaches this in the COMPLETENESS with which the most modern views on the subject are dealt with. Professor Austen's volume will be INVALUABLE, not only to the student, but also to those whose knowledge of the art is far advanced.
Seite 32 - SKETCHES OF BRITISH WILD FLOWERS IN THEIR HOMES. BY R. LLOYD PRAEGER, BA, MRIA Illustrated by Drawings from Nature by S. Rosamond Praeger, and Photographs by R. Welch.
Seite 5 - Duties and Present Position. EDUCATION : A Seaman's Education : what it should be— Present Means of Education— Hints. DISCIPLINE AND DUTY — Postscript — The Serious Decrease in the Number of British Seamen, a Matter demanding the Attention of the Nation.
Seite 37 - In order to render the work complete for the purposes of the Shipbuilder, whether at home or abroad, the Methods of Calculation introduced by Mr. FK BARNES. Mr.
Seite 32 - By the River — Along the Shingle — A Fragrant Hedgerow — A Connemara, Bog — Where the Samphire grows — A Flowery Meadow — Among the Corn (a Study in Weeds) — In the Home of the Alpines — A City Rubbish-Heap — Glossary. " A FRESH AND STIMULATING book . . . should take a high place . . . The Illustrations are drawn with much skill." — The Times. " BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED. . . . One of the HOST ACCURATE as well ai INTERESTING books of the kind we have seen."— Athenaeum.
Seite 11 - My method of lessening the consumption of steam, and consequently fuel in fire engines, consists of the following principles : first, that vessel in which the powers of steam are to be employed to work the engine, which is called the cylinder in common fire engines, and which I call the steam vessel, must, during the whole time the engine is at work, be kept as hot as the steam...
Seite 40 - STANDARD WORKS OF REFERENCE FOR Metallurgists, Mine-Owners, Assayers, Manufacturers, and all interested in the development of the Metallurgical Industries. EDITED BY Sir W. ROBERTS-AUSTEN, KCB, DCL, FRS lit Large &va.
Seite 34 - USEFUL RULES AND TABLES : For Architects, Builders, Engineers, Founders, Mechanics, Shipbuilders, Surveyors, &c. With APPENDIX for the use of ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS, By Professor JAMIESON, FRSE SEVENTH EDITION.