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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... thick coating of rust below . In such cases it has been found advisable to beat off all the rust and scale , and to cover the interior of the boiler with a thin coating of Scott's cement . When surface condensers are used , it is the ...
... thick coating of rust below . In such cases it has been found advisable to beat off all the rust and scale , and to cover the interior of the boiler with a thin coating of Scott's cement . When surface condensers are used , it is the ...
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... thickness , and also of increasing velocity , which moves with the ship ; and as the stern part is im- mersed in this moving water , the friction upon it is not so great as it would otherwise be . Screw pro- pellers placed at the stern ...
... thickness , and also of increasing velocity , which moves with the ship ; and as the stern part is im- mersed in this moving water , the friction upon it is not so great as it would otherwise be . Screw pro- pellers placed at the stern ...
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... thickness of the plate . Steam Hammers . - The steam hammer was sug- gested by Watt , but was brought into its present form by Nasmyth , in whose hammer a piston rod proceeding from an inverted cylinder raised a block of metal between ...
... thickness of the plate . Steam Hammers . - The steam hammer was sug- gested by Watt , but was brought into its present form by Nasmyth , in whose hammer a piston rod proceeding from an inverted cylinder raised a block of metal between ...
Página 141
... thick . The tube plates are of ironin . thick , and the tubes are 14 in . distant from each other . The length of each furnace is 7 ft . , and its breadth 2 ft . There are two sets of boilers in each vessel , one before and the other ...
... thick . The tube plates are of ironin . thick , and the tubes are 14 in . distant from each other . The length of each furnace is 7 ft . , and its breadth 2 ft . There are two sets of boilers in each vessel , one before and the other ...
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... thick , and ploughed and tongued at the edges to enable each plate to give mutual sup- port to those next it in the event of strain or shock . With an immersed midship section of 1,200 sq . ft . , and a pressure of steam in the boilers ...
... thick , and ploughed and tongued at the edges to enable each plate to give mutual sup- port to those next it in the event of strain or shock . With an immersed midship section of 1,200 sq . ft . , and a pressure of steam in the boilers ...
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