A catechism of the steam engine and its various applications to mines, mills, steam navigation, railways, and agriculture (1876)
Bourne, John, civil engineer. [from old catalog] · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 104
the lawsof pneumatics, and which, if the initial pressure be representedby 1, will give a pressure of 5 at the middle of the stroke, and•25 at the end of it. If this scries be set ofi on the horizontallines, it will mark out a hyperbolic curve—the area of the part LAW OF EXPAKSIO:^r OF STEAM. 89… … Diagi*am showing law of expansion of steam in a cylinder descent. If the squares above the point, where the steam is cutoff, be counted, they will be found to amount to 50; and ifthose beneath that point be counted or estimated, they will befound to amount to about 69. These squares are…
Steam engineering · Steam-engines
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