The Marine Steam Engine: A Treatise for the Use of Engineering Students and Officers of the Royal Navy

absolute pressure action air-pump angle arrangement atmosphere auxiliary back pressure bilge blades brass cause centre coal cock combustion compound engine connected crank crank-shaft curve diameter draught eccentric efficiency equal evaporation exhaust Fahr feed feed-water feet fitted floats friction funnel furnaces gases gear gun-metal heating surface high-pressure cylinder hot-well hydrometer increased indicated horse-power indicator diagrams iron jacket Kingston valves latent heat length low-pressure cylinders marine boilers marine engines mean effective pressure metal motion necessary ordinary orifice paddle-wheel pass pipes piston pitch plates port pounds per square prevent propeller pump rates of expansion reduced represent resistance revolutions per minute Royal Navy safety-valves screw screw-propeller sensible heat shaft ship shown in Fig side slide-valve speed square inch steam pressure steam-pipe steel stokeholds stroke suction sufficient suitable superheated superheater surface condensers temperature thermal units total heat triple expansion engines tubes vertical weight wheel