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 365
fitted with surfacecondensers. The serrated deviation at a is caused by the mo-mentum of the piston of the indicator. In fig. 17 we have two diagrams, taken from opposite endsof one of the engines of H.M.S. Barossa. This vessel is 225feet long, 40 feet 8 inches broad, and 1,702 tons burden. Witha… … DIAGRAMS TAKEN FROM SCREW STEAMER ORONTES. of 64 inches diameter and 3 feet stroke, the nominal powerbeing 400 horses. On the olncial trial this vessel realised aspeed of 11 92 knots, with a pressure of steam in the boiler of20 lbs. per square inch, and with an indicated power of 1798*2horses, the…
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