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... FOR LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS AND MACHINISTS : COMPRISING THE PROPORTIONS AND. U 10 17 Locomotive built by Norris Brothers for the Syracuse & Utica Rail Road 1851 . with Septimus Norriss Patent Direct Action Variable Expansion Valves .
... FOR LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS AND MACHINISTS : COMPRISING THE PROPORTIONS AND. U 10 17 Locomotive built by Norris Brothers for the Syracuse & Utica Rail Road 1851 . with Septimus Norriss Patent Direct Action Variable Expansion Valves .
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... action of the column of fluid which produces it , being unity .............. 1000 or 8 The velocity through an aperture in a thin plate by the same pressure is Through a tube from two to three diameters in • 625 or 5 length , projecting ...
... action of the column of fluid which produces it , being unity .............. 1000 or 8 The velocity through an aperture in a thin plate by the same pressure is Through a tube from two to three diameters in • 625 or 5 length , projecting ...
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... action engines , is found by experiment to be inconsider- able . Mr. Tredgold's Estimate of the Distribution and Expenditure of the Steam in an Engine . IN A NON - CONDENSING ENGINE . Let the pressure on the boiler be Force required to ...
... action engines , is found by experiment to be inconsider- able . Mr. Tredgold's Estimate of the Distribution and Expenditure of the Steam in an Engine . IN A NON - CONDENSING ENGINE . Let the pressure on the boiler be Force required to ...
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... action engines have far exceeded previous calculation . In recently con- structed war - steamers with screw - propellers , the whole machinery is placed seven or eight feet below the water - line , and the screw is driven by direct action ...
... action engines have far exceeded previous calculation . In recently con- structed war - steamers with screw - propellers , the whole machinery is placed seven or eight feet below the water - line , and the screw is driven by direct action ...
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... action of the engine . A paper was read at the meeting of the British Association in September , by Mr. Scott Russell , on " The law which governs . the resistance to the mo- tion of railway trains at high velocities . " His ex ...
... action of the engine . A paper was read at the meeting of the British Association in September , by Mr. Scott Russell , on " The law which governs . the resistance to the mo- tion of railway trains at high velocities . " His ex ...
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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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