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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... vessels a pressure of steam of 60 lbs . and upwards is now employed . These engines are fitted with surface condensers ; and the steam after acting by high pressure in one cylinder is dismissed into the other , where it acts as low ...
... vessels a pressure of steam of 60 lbs . and upwards is now employed . These engines are fitted with surface condensers ; and the steam after acting by high pressure in one cylinder is dismissed into the other , where it acts as low ...
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... vessels ; and the innovation has been productive of a material saving of fuel in many cases . The reasons which render superheating a source of economy may be inferred from the foregoing remarks on Thermo - dynamics ; and in the first ...
... vessels ; and the innovation has been productive of a material saving of fuel in many cases . The reasons which render superheating a source of economy may be inferred from the foregoing remarks on Thermo - dynamics ; and in the first ...
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... vessel , and also of the internal parts of the engine ; and this anticipation has also been verified by the result . * It is found in practice that When the first edition of my catechism appeared in 1848 , the practice of transmitting ...
... vessel , and also of the internal parts of the engine ; and this anticipation has also been verified by the result . * It is found in practice that When the first edition of my catechism appeared in 1848 , the practice of transmitting ...
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... vessels using salt water , is now regarded as the most promising expedient of economy . The construction of superheaters is very various . * Steam in the production of power is itself condensed ; and less heat will pass into the ...
... vessels using salt water , is now regarded as the most promising expedient of economy . The construction of superheaters is very various . * Steam in the production of power is itself condensed ; and less heat will pass into the ...
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... vessels is almost identical with that introduced by me into the ' Don Juan ' in 1837 , many years before the practice of intentional superheating had come into general use . In this arrangement the lower part of the chimney and for 8 or ...
... vessels is almost identical with that introduced by me into the ' Don Juan ' in 1837 , many years before the practice of intentional superheating had come into general use . In this arrangement the lower part of the chimney and for 8 or ...
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