Steam Boilers: Their Defects, Management, and ConstructionC. Griffin & Company, Limited, 1903 - 157 Seiten |
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... Instances of firemen being allowed to give instructions as to repairs and other important matters are by no means uncommon , they being in many steam- using establishments the only individuals who can claim to possess a mechanical ...
... Instances of firemen being allowed to give instructions as to repairs and other important matters are by no means uncommon , they being in many steam- using establishments the only individuals who can claim to possess a mechanical ...
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... instances , owing to the confidence placed in their action by attendants , have led to the very results they were designed to obviate . Experience of this kind has occasionally led steam users to conclude — and not without some reason ...
... instances , owing to the confidence placed in their action by attendants , have led to the very results they were designed to obviate . Experience of this kind has occasionally led steam users to conclude — and not without some reason ...
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... instance of recent occurrence may be quoted . In this case the water supply was practically free from impurities , and although the ex- haust steam had been discharged into the open feed - tank for years , the plates of the boiler ...
... instance of recent occurrence may be quoted . In this case the water supply was practically free from impurities , and although the ex- haust steam had been discharged into the open feed - tank for years , the plates of the boiler ...
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... instances of a similar nature might be referred to , but the foregoing will suffice to show that , even where the general conditions are most favourable , circumstances are liable to arise which will render the practice of heating the ...
... instances of a similar nature might be referred to , but the foregoing will suffice to show that , even where the general conditions are most favourable , circumstances are liable to arise which will render the practice of heating the ...
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... instances are known of safety - valves being rendered inoperative during the winter season through the water in escape pipes being frozen . The area of the escape pipe should always be rather over than under that of the valve , and in ...
... instances are known of safety - valves being rendered inoperative during the winter season through the water in escape pipes being frozen . The area of the escape pipe should always be rather over than under that of the valve , and in ...
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arranged attached blow-off Board of Trade bottom BRYAN DONKIN bursting pressure Butt joints cause cent circular seams collapsing pressure construction corrosion cross tubes Crown 8vo crown plates cylindrical defects double rivetting end plates Engineer EXETER STREET explosions factor of safety feed-water fire firebox fitted flanged flue tubes fracture frequently front end furnace tubes fusible plug gauges grooving gusset Handsome Cloth heating iron J. J. THOMSON Lancashire boilers lap joints leakage length lever liable load Locomotive LONDON CHARLES GRIFFIN man-hole Marine material method obtained ordinary overheating pipe pitch plate section practice prevent PROF proportions render Revised rings rivet section rivetted joints rule rupture safety-valves sectional area shearing strength shell plates solid plate square inch steam users steel stop-valve straining STRAND strength Strength of Materials suitable surface tensile strength tested Text-Book THIRD EDITION uptake-tube valve vertical boilers water space weight welding whilst
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Seite 28 - II. Classification of Steel Ships. III. Considerations in making choice of Type of Vessel. — Framing of Ships. IV. Strains experienced by Ships. — Methods of Computing and Comparing Strengths of Ships. V. Construction of Ships. — Alternative Modes of Construction. — Types of Vessels. — Turret, Self Trimming, and Trunk Steamers, &c. — Rivets and Rivetting, Workmanship. VI. Pumping Arrangements. VII. Maintenance. — Prevention of Deterioration in the Hulls of Ships.— Cement, Paint, &c.—...
Seite 32 - Notwithstanding my many years' experience at sea, it has told me how much more there it to acquire." — (Letter to the Publishers from a Master Mariner). " I must express my thanks to you for the labour and care you have taken in 'PRACTICAL MECHANICS.' . . . IT is A LIFE'S EXPERIENCE. . . . What an amount we frequently see wasted by rigging purchases without reason and accidents to spars, &c., &c. ! 'PRACTICAL MECHANICS
Seite 42 - Illustrated. 8s. 6d. net. SANITARY ENGINEERING: A Practical Manual of Town Drainage and Sewage and Refuse Disposal, For Sanitary Authorities, Engineers, Inspectors, Architects, Contractors, and Students. BY FRANCIS WOOD, AMlNST.CE, FGS, Borough Engineer and Surveyor, Fulham ; late Borough Engineer, Bacup, Lanes.
Seite 31 - CONTENTS. INTRODUCTORY. — Instruments Used at Sea for Meteorological Purposes.— Meteorological Log-Books. — Atmospheric Pressure. — Air Temperatures. — Sea Temperatures. — "Winds.— Wind Force Scales.— History of the Law of Storms.— Hurricanes, Seasons, and •Storm Tracks. — Solution of the Cyclone Problem. — Ocean Currents. — Icebergs.— Synchronous Charts.— Dew, Mists, Fogs, and Haze.— Clouds.— Rain, Snow, and Hail.— Mirage, Rainbows, Coronas, Halos, and Meteors.—...
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Seite 33 - Price 6s. A MEDICAL AND SURGICAL HELP FOR SHIPMASTERS AND OFFICERS IN THE MERCHANT NAVY. BY WM. JOHNSON SMITH, FROS, Principal Medical Officer, Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich. *»* The attention of all interested in our Merchant Navy is requested to this exceedingly...
Seite 31 - Chart— Mercator Sailing — Current Sailing — Position by Bearings— Great Circle Sailing — The Tides — Questions — Appendix : Compass Error — Numerous Useful Hints.
Seite 18 - By Defective and Overloaded Safety Valves — (3) By Corrosion, Internal or External— -(4) By Defective Design and Construction (Unsupported Flue Tubes ; Unstrengthened Manholes ; Defective Staying ; Strength of Rivetted Joints ; Factor of Safety)— II. CONSTRUCTION...
Seite 41 - There is no question that, given the PERFECT GROUNDING of the Student in his Science, the remainder comes afterwards to him in a manner much more simple and easily acquired. The work is AN EXAMPLE OP THE ADVANTAGES OF THE SYSTEMATIC TREATMENT of a Science over the fragmentary style so generally followed. BY A LONG WAY THE BEST of the small Manuals for Students.
Seite 32 - All but the simplest explanations have. therefore, been avoided, and ANSWERS to the Exercises are given. Any person may readily, by careful study. become master of their contents, and thus lay the foundation for a further mathematical course, if desired.