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The thermodynamics of heat-engines (1903)

Reeve, Sidney A. (Sidney Armor), 1866-1941 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 161

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irling, and the Ericsson. Of these three, allare known by long trial to be impracticable. The essential features of an engine operating on thiscycle are shown in Fig. 23. They comprise two cylinders,C and W, the latter larger than the other, the two beingcombined in any way so that power may be… … Fig. 23 the entire system to be filled with the chosen permanent-gasworking-substance, air for example, the operation is asfollows, the processes being traced in the diagrams ofFigs. 24 and 25 : — (1) There is drawn into cylinder C a charge of working-substance. This is shown by AB of Fig. 25; it…

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