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Thermodynamics of the steam-engine and other heat-engines

Peabody, Cecil Hobart, 1855-1934 · 1889 · New York, Wiley & Sons · 40 pictures

An engineering textbook by MIT professor Cecil Hobart Peabody, published by Wiley in New York in 1889 for students and practising engineers studying steam and heat engines. The 42 figures are line diagrams: sectioned valves, injectors and condensers, hydraulic head schematics with lettered reference points, and plotted curves, offering clean technical linework, labelled apparatus cutaways and simple graph geometry.

Thermodynamics · Steam-engines · Heat-engines

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