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 44
ction of having aprime motor, which is not likely during their business livesto give them any trouble, is more than a compensation forany possible saving in dollars and cents to be effectedby the adoption of the higher velocities of piston and ofcrank-shaft rotation. THE WHEELOCK ENGINE is an… … ELECTRIC LIGHTING PLANTS. 35 are carried on steel trunnions, and with hardened surfacesof contact are but little subject to wear. The steam orcut-off valve is set further away from the cylinder than inthe standard arrangements of Corliss and other builders ofthat class of engines, and this enables…
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