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 363
47 pressure exerted on the piston of this engine is only 12*45 lbs.per square inch, although it operates without expansion ; and itmay be taken as a fair example of eneligible construction. Diagrams showing the momentum of the Indicator piston.—Fig. 14 is a pair of diagrams taken from one of the… … diagram; taken from h.m. troop-steamer orontes. ton and Watt. With a midship section of 644 square feet, and adisplacement of 3,400 tons, the vessel attained a speed on her offi-cial trial, of 12*622 knots, with a pressure of steam in the boilerof 25 lbs. per square inch, 61 revolutions per minute,…
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