Cyclopedia of locomotive engineering, with examination questions and answers; a practical manual on the construction care and management of modern locomotives (1916)
Swingle, Calvin Franklin, 1846- [from old catalog] · Chicago, F. J. Drake & co., pub. for Sears, Roebuck & co. · leaf 255
engine. When release occurs at R, and the ex-haust side of the piston is exposed to the atmosphere,the pressure immediately rises to a point equal to, orslightly above, that of the atmosphere. Fig. 118 was taken during a series of experimentsmade by the author for the purpose of ascertainingthe… … 13 ./cr5r*/z<s*firp Figure 118 ;ng to the method illustrated in Fig. 117. By placingthe rule on points A and B, the distance between thosetwo points is found to be 3^ in., or 58 sixteenths.Dividing this by 10 gives 5.8 sixteenths, or nearly ^in., as the width of the spaces; the two end…
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