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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... coal is reduced by this arrange- ment to about 2 lbs . per actual horse power per hour . The steam engine , however , it appears to me has now nearly fulfilled its destiny ; and I believe it to be on the eve of supercession by other ...
... coal is reduced by this arrange- ment to about 2 lbs . per actual horse power per hour . The steam engine , however , it appears to me has now nearly fulfilled its destiny ; and I believe it to be on the eve of supercession by other ...
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... coal instead of zinc . Zinc , like coal , may be burned , and will produce heat . But a pound of coal consumed in an engine will produce more than twice the power produced in a Galvanic battery by a pound of zinc , and the cost of the coal ...
... coal instead of zinc . Zinc , like coal , may be burned , and will produce heat . But a pound of coal consumed in an engine will produce more than twice the power produced in a Galvanic battery by a pound of zinc , and the cost of the coal ...
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... coal accom- plished by superheating common low pressure steam to this extent may be set down as about 10 per cent .; and although a larger economy than this has been obtained in some cases , the increased advantage is to be imputed to ...
... coal accom- plished by superheating common low pressure steam to this extent may be set down as about 10 per cent .; and although a larger economy than this has been obtained in some cases , the increased advantage is to be imputed to ...
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... coal can generate , and if we also had the heat generated by the friction , we should have a total amount of heat greater than the coal could generate , which is an ab- surd supposition . There will consequently always be in the ...
... coal can generate , and if we also had the heat generated by the friction , we should have a total amount of heat greater than the coal could generate , which is an ab- surd supposition . There will consequently always be in the ...
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... soot as well as of saline incrustations , the furnaces were so contrived that the volatile parts of the coal were distilled. BOURNE'S TUBULAR BOILER , 1838 . BOILERS OF THE TROOP SHIP JUMNA , 1867 . 18 RECENT IMPROVEMENTS .
... soot as well as of saline incrustations , the furnaces were so contrived that the volatile parts of the coal were distilled. BOURNE'S TUBULAR BOILER , 1838 . BOILERS OF THE TROOP SHIP JUMNA , 1867 . 18 RECENT IMPROVEMENTS .
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