Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 41
ing results,which are taken from the actual records. The same train was taken overthe same rails in ordinary quick passenger traffic for several journeyswhich, as performed in the same time by the compound engine and byanother otherwise similar non-compound engine, required for the com-pound,… … Fig. \oa.—G.N.R. Express Passenger Locomotive. -fuel. As the steam enters the high-pressure cylmder first, it would notbe possible to start the engine if it had stopped at one of the dead-points on that side, without a special arrangement for admitting thesteam directly to the other cylinder in…
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