Handbook of the steam-engine. Containing all the rules required for the right construction and management of engines of every class, with the easy arithmetical solution of those rules. Constituting a key to the 'Catechism of the steam-engine.' (1874)
Bourne, John · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 361
d, and an amount of pressure is required to overcome thisinertia, which is measured by the highest point to which thepencil ascends. So soon as the water in the hot-well and waste-water pipe has been put into motion, the motion is continuedby its own momentum, without a sustained pressure being… … DIAGRAM FROM AIR-PUMP OF STEAMER ULSTER.(T STROKES PER MINUTE.) The effect of partially closing the throttle-valve of an engineso as to diminish the speed, will be to reduce the momentum ofthe water in the hot-well, and correspondingly to reduce themaximum pressure which the pump has to exert. But…
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