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 368
ne operating by a jet in the condenser, thevacuum is much worse than it was in the old class of paddle-engines, or even in the land engines made by Watt nearly a cen-tury ago. In fig. 19 we have an example of diagrams taken from the topand bottom of one of the paddle-engines of the steamer… … DIAGRAMS FROM PADDLE-EXGIXES OF GREAT EASTERN. four cylinders, or two to each wheel. The mean pressure on thepiston which these diagrams exhibit is 22*2 lbs. per square inch,from which, with the other particulars, it is easy to compute thepower. In fig. 20 we have two different pairs of diagrams.…
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