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 347
momentum or force as 342 LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING Jie water jet; it could, therefore, easily enter a boilerat 180 pounds pressure if we could reduce it to the sizeof the hole of the water nozzle. How ought an injector to work? Here a practicaldifficulty is reached. A steam jet 6 in. from the noz-zle… … Figure 157The Self-Acting Injector, Class M Improved water jet discharging the same weight per second;therefore, if the steam is changed to water withoutreducing its velocity, it would pass through a hole one-sixteenth the diameter of the steam nozzle11 at avelocity of 3600 feet per second. The…
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