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... AND CLASSICAL KNOWLEDGE ; This Volume , DESCRIBING THE GREATEST WORK OF MAN , The Locomotive Steam Engine , IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED BY HIS BROTHER , THE AUTHOR . PREFACE . In presenting this work to the Engineers of.
... AND CLASSICAL KNOWLEDGE ; This Volume , DESCRIBING THE GREATEST WORK OF MAN , The Locomotive Steam Engine , IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED BY HIS BROTHER , THE AUTHOR . PREFACE . In presenting this work to the Engineers of.
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... volume of water contained in them , considerable time is required to get up the steam , even so much as three and a half hours where the ordinary engines take two hours , and they require great care in firing and feeding to prevent the ...
... volume of water contained in them , considerable time is required to get up the steam , even so much as three and a half hours where the ordinary engines take two hours , and they require great care in firing and feeding to prevent the ...
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... volume of air admitted ; and it would be a material improvement if the furnace could be fed by seme such mechanism as the revolving grate . The use of sediment - collectors in locomotive boilers . also appears expedient , as , if ...
... volume of air admitted ; and it would be a material improvement if the furnace could be fed by seme such mechanism as the revolving grate . The use of sediment - collectors in locomotive boilers . also appears expedient , as , if ...
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... Volume , Octavo , of nearly six hundred pages ... ...... $ 3.50 It will contain such calculations as are met with and required in the Me- chanical Arts , and establish models or standards to guide practical men . The Tables that are ...
... Volume , Octavo , of nearly six hundred pages ... ...... $ 3.50 It will contain such calculations as are met with and required in the Me- chanical Arts , and establish models or standards to guide practical men . The Tables that are ...
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... Volume , octavo ............ Com- $ 5.00 ' This important Treatise will be found to cover the whole field in the most masterly manner , and it is believed that in no other branch of applied science could more signal service be rendered ...
... Volume , octavo ............ Com- $ 5.00 ' This important Treatise will be found to cover the whole field in the most masterly manner , and it is believed that in no other branch of applied science could more signal service be rendered ...
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abscissa Atmospheric Railway avoirdupois axle blast-pipe boiler brass centre circle circular segments Circum circumference cloth coke conjugate connecting-rod copper crank Cube Root cubic feet cubic foot cubic inch curve cylinder cylinder in inches Dauphiny Decimal or Reciprocal diame diameter distance driving wheels eccentric-rod equal EXAMPLE.-Required find the Area find the Solidity fire-box Fraction or Numb friction Frustum fulcrum fulcrum and valve Gallons gauge give the solidity Height of Arc horses Hyperbola iron Length of Arc leverage locomotive engine metallic mile morocco motion multiply the sum North Shields ordinate Ounces Parabola pipes piston piston-rod plates Pounds pressure quotient radius rails Railway resistance revolving axis RULE RULE.-Multiply RULE.-To find screw segment shaft side smoke-box spindle square inch Square Root steam stroke subtract thickness tion tons trapezium tubes valve velocity Volume whole weight yards Zone
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