Recent Improvements in the Steam-engine in Its Various Applications to Mines, Mills, Steam Navigation, Railways, and Agriculture: Being a Supplement to 'The Catechism of the Steam-engine.'Longmans, Green, and Company, 1869 - 336 páginas |
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... arrangements , to discuss their con- gruity or otherwise with those sound mechanical principles which I have endeavoured to explain , and thus to combat the heresy that there is any finality in existing arrangements or systems ; the ...
... arrangements , to discuss their con- gruity or otherwise with those sound mechanical principles which I have endeavoured to explain , and thus to combat the heresy that there is any finality in existing arrangements or systems ; the ...
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... arrangement is given in fig . 1 , which is a representation of the superheater intro- duced by Messrs . R. Napier and Sons into the steamer ' Oleg , ' belonging to the Russian Steam Navigation Company . A is the boiler , and a the ...
... arrangement is given in fig . 1 , which is a representation of the superheater intro- duced by Messrs . R. Napier and Sons into the steamer ' Oleg , ' belonging to the Russian Steam Navigation Company . A is the boiler , and a the ...
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... arrangement , a narrow rectangular pipe or chamber - which winds in a zigzag manner like the flue of a flue boiler- conducts the steam backwards and forwards amongst the smoke at the root of the chimney , until finally the steam ...
... arrangement , a narrow rectangular pipe or chamber - which winds in a zigzag manner like the flue of a flue boiler- conducts the steam backwards and forwards amongst the smoke at the root of the chimney , until finally the steam ...
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... arrangement , to the heat of the smoke , and was thereby super- heated to the required extent . Messrs . Boulton and Watt have latterly introduced this arrangement into several vessels , but it is only a reproduction of what I had done ...
... arrangement , to the heat of the smoke , and was thereby super- heated to the required extent . Messrs . Boulton and Watt have latterly introduced this arrangement into several vessels , but it is only a reproduction of what I had done ...
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... arrangement to obtain sufficient depth for the furnaces ; and the circular tubes , unless stiffened by hoops or cross tubes , are liable to collapse . In the earlier times of steam navigation the boilers employed were invariably flue ...
... arrangement to obtain sufficient depth for the furnaces ; and the circular tubes , unless stiffened by hoops or cross tubes , are liable to collapse . In the earlier times of steam navigation the boilers employed were invariably flue ...
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