The Engineer's Handy-book: Containing a Full Explanation of the Steam-engine Indicator, and Its Use and Advantages to Engineers and Steam Users. With Formulæ for Estimating the Power of All Classes of Steam-engines; Also, Facts, Figures, Questions, and Tables for Engineers who Wish to Qualify Themselves for the United States Navy, the Revenue Service, the Mercantile Marine, Or to Take Charge of the Better Class of Stationary Steam-engines. With Illustrations |
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... tube boilers ? What engine defects have come under your notice at sea ? What caused those defects ? How were they remedied ? Give the names of the steamers . What boiler defects have come under your notice at sea ? What caused those ...
... tube boilers ? What engine defects have come under your notice at sea ? What caused those defects ? How were they remedied ? Give the names of the steamers . What boiler defects have come under your notice at sea ? What caused those ...
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... tubes , crowns , and other parts of steam - boilers are subjected , as well as those which the longitudinal and curvilinear seams have to bear ; also the difference in strength between single- and double- riveted seams , the loss ...
... tubes , crowns , and other parts of steam - boilers are subjected , as well as those which the longitudinal and curvilinear seams have to bear ; also the difference in strength between single- and double- riveted seams , the loss ...
Page 62
... tubes or flues ; the thickness of the shell ; the number of square feet of heating surface in it also of grate surface ; the area of the safety - valve , and whether the boiler was single or double riveted . Eleventh . The safe working ...
... tubes or flues ; the thickness of the shell ; the number of square feet of heating surface in it also of grate surface ; the area of the safety - valve , and whether the boiler was single or double riveted . Eleventh . The safe working ...
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... tube , provided the opposing pressure of the atmosphere were removed . The second column gives the absolute pressure in pounds per square inch under the same circumstances . The third column , it will be observed , is headed " Pressure ...
... tube , provided the opposing pressure of the atmosphere were removed . The second column gives the absolute pressure in pounds per square inch under the same circumstances . The third column , it will be observed , is headed " Pressure ...
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... tube connected with the pistons of trunk engines in which the connecting - rod oscil- lates . The term is just as applicable to certain other parts of machinery and arrangements as to the steam - engine . Trunnions . A term applied to ...
... tube connected with the pistons of trunk engines in which the connecting - rod oscil- lates . The term is just as applicable to certain other parts of machinery and arrangements as to the steam - engine . Trunnions . A term applied to ...
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adjustment air-pump amount angles applied atmosphere Automatic Cut-Off Engine bed-plate belt boiler causes centre clearance coal compound connected connecting-rod Corliss Engine crank crank-pin crank-shaft cross-head Cube cubic foot cubic inches cylinder diagram diameter divide eccentric equal exhaust expansion feet per minute fly-wheel friction fuel give governor high-pressure horse-power INCHES OF MERCURY indicator indicator diagrams injector iron latent heat length lever lift locomotive low-pressure marine engines mean effective pressure mechanical motion move multiply number of revolutions opening pillow-block pipe piston piston-rod point of cut-off port pressure in pounds pressure of steam proportion pump quantity quotient revolutions per minute Rule for finding safety-valve salinometer screw shaft side slide-valve specific gravity speed square inch steam steam-boilers steam-chest steam-engines steam-valve stroke surface surface condenser TABLE SHOWING temperature term tion tube vacuum valve valve-gear valve-rod valve-stem velocity vertical weight