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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... given in the previous editions , and have introduced new examples , among which will be found some of the most remarkable engines collected in Paris at the Exhibition of 1867. In steam en- gines the tendency now is towards higher piston ...
... given in the previous editions , and have introduced new examples , among which will be found some of the most remarkable engines collected in Paris at the Exhibition of 1867. In steam en- gines the tendency now is towards higher piston ...
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... given quantity of water is measurable by the difference of level between the highest and the lowest points , so in a steam engine the power generated with any given quantity of heat is measurable by the difference of tempera- ture ...
... given quantity of water is measurable by the difference of level between the highest and the lowest points , so in a steam engine the power generated with any given quantity of heat is measurable by the difference of tempera- ture ...
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... given quantity of carbon produces its equivalent of power with far less waste than in the best steam engine , although the temperature is not great and the same result takes place in a Voltaic battery - the electricity generated by ...
... given quantity of carbon produces its equivalent of power with far less waste than in the best steam engine , although the temperature is not great and the same result takes place in a Voltaic battery - the electricity generated by ...
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... given of the economy to be derived from a certain assigned amount of superheating . This investigation was first made by me in 1834 , and subsequent experience has shown that the estimate then arrived at was pretty nearly correct . It ...
... given of the economy to be derived from a certain assigned amount of superheating . This investigation was first made by me in 1834 , and subsequent experience has shown that the estimate then arrived at was pretty nearly correct . It ...
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... given quan- tity of heat when distributed in the assigned propor- tion between the water and the steam . * Upon the whole , superheating is now rather on the decline ; in a wire cage or otherwise , for the carbon would satisfy the ...
... given quan- tity of heat when distributed in the assigned propor- tion between the water and the steam . * Upon the whole , superheating is now rather on the decline ; in a wire cage or otherwise , for the carbon would satisfy the ...
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