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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... 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 which may be made to work an engine with far less loss than its ...
... 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 which may be made to work an engine with far less loss than its ...
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... less heat will pass into the condenser than is generated in the boiler by the amount that is the equivalent of the power gene- rated . If this were not so , a steam - engine would be a heat- producing engine ; for the power of the ...
... less heat will pass into the condenser than is generated in the boiler by the amount that is the equivalent of the power gene- rated . If this were not so , a steam - engine would be a heat- producing engine ; for the power of the ...
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... through which pipes the steam is passed . Cast iron has this advantage over wrought , that from the pro- tective influence of the carbon entering into the com- position it is less liable to internal corrosion ; but 14 RECENT IMPROVEMENTS .
... through which pipes the steam is passed . Cast iron has this advantage over wrought , that from the pro- tective influence of the carbon entering into the com- position it is less liable to internal corrosion ; but 14 RECENT IMPROVEMENTS .
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... less liable to internal corrosion ; but such superheaters are heavier and more liable to accident than those made of wrought iron . In some cases , where double - cylinder engines are employed , a superheater is introduced between the ...
... less liable to internal corrosion ; but such superheaters are heavier and more liable to accident than those made of wrought iron . In some cases , where double - cylinder engines are employed , a superheater is introduced between the ...
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... less the expansion , the larger manifestly must be the surface per nominal horse power ; and in propor- tioning boilers of every class the main thing to be had regard to is the number of cubic feet of water required to be evaporated in ...
... less the expansion , the larger manifestly must be the surface per nominal horse power ; and in propor- tioning boilers of every class the main thing to be had regard to is the number of cubic feet of water required to be evaporated in ...
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