Stationary steam engines, simple and compound; especially as adapted to electric lighting purposes (1890)
Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903 · New York, J. Wiley & sons · leaf 74
r but yet important modifications of details to adaptthem to service in a machine, in which the slightest play injoints or bearings will be certain to make trouble. Thebed is of peculiar design and is enormously stiff and solid,especially in those parts which take the stresses of the re-ciprocating… … ELECTRIC LIGHTING PLANTS. 63 times found to occur with a less effective arrangement.The main-shaft journals, and the journals of the crank-pins,are made with especial care, skillfully ground to size andform, and nicely finished before the engine is assembled.The pin is always of mild steel,…
Steam-engines
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