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 30
us. Thurston, Gardner & Co., sub-stituted for this the Pitcher hydraulic regulator and aregister valve, which gave a much better regulation; thiscontrivance was also isochronous, /. e., it was capable ofholding the engine at speed, whatever the variation ofsteam-pressure or of load. But an immense… … ELECTRIC LIGHTING PLANTS. of which is especially adapted to its place in that machine,and is characteristically different from the parts which per-form the same office in other engines. The leading featuresof this machine are: i. The use of four valves—two steam, and two exhaust—so placed as to…
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