Elementary lessons in steam machinery and the marine steam engine, with a short description of the construction of a battleship (1893)
Langmaid, Joseph, Gaisford, H · London, New York : Macmillan · leaf 244
n whichworks up and down in a cylinder open to the air at the top andcapable of being placed in connection with either end of anengine cylinder at the bottom. When in use the varying pres-sure in either end of the engine cylinder causes the small pistonto move up and down, its motion being… … Fig. 91.—Richards Indicatok (Half size. 221 lesson xxm WORK AND HORSE POWER 225 of the engine piston. Tims a diagram is traced out on the paperfrom which at any given point of the stroke of the engine pistonthe pressure of steam in the cylinder at that point may be ob-tained. A very common type of…
Steam-engines · Marine engines
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