Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 328
with a metallic sheet on the outside, which protects the cylinders from the loss of heat byradiation. _ The steam-chests on outside cylinders are usually placed on the top, and rarely at the bottom orsides. The distribution of steam in the cylinders is effected by means of the ordinary… … 314 LOCOMOTIVE, DESCRIPTION OF PARTS OF THE. the valve, require unusually long steam-ports to diminish the losses in efficiency of steam fromwire-drawing. The steam-ports are thus made in length nearly equal to the diameter of the cylinder.To prevent the wire-drawing of steam on account of small…
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