A history of the growth of the steam-engine (1878)
Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 344
le, condensing engines and moderate steam-pressuresare still employed. But this type of engine is graduallybecoming superseded by the high-pressure condensing en-gine, with considerable expansion, and with an expansion-gear ia which the point of cut-off is determined by thegovernor. The best-known… … Fig. 97.—Corliss Engine. horizontal steam-cylinder is bolted firmly to the end of theframe, which is so formed as to transmit the strain to themain journal with the greatest directness. The frame car-ries the guides for the cross-head, which are both in thesame vertical plane. The valves are four…
Steam-engines
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