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 369
horse-powei DIAGRAMS FROM DIFFERENT STEAMERS. 353 4,100. The Victoria and Albert* has two oscillating engines, with88-inch cylinders and 7-feet stroke. The pressure of the steamin the boilers when the diagrams were taken was 26 lbs. persquare inch ; of the vacuum 12-| lbs. per square inch ; the… … COMPARATIVE DIAGRAMS FROM ■ ULSTER AND VICTORIA AND ALBERT.* double of this, or 12,164*2 square inches, and as there are 22*87lbs. on each square inch, the total pressure urging both pistonswill be 12,164*2 times 22*87 or 278,195 lbs. Now, as thelength of the stroke is 7 feet, and as the piston…
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