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 371
so that the steam would be able to attain andmaintain its proper pressure at the beginning of the stroke, anduntil it is purposely cut off. The mean pressure of steam on thepiston shown by the diagrams represented in fig. 22 is 1336 lbs.per square inch. Diagrams illustrative of the action of the… … DIAGRAMS FROM ENGINE OF PNEUMATIC DESPATCH COMPANY. Bridge. The steam is cut off by the link so as to make the ad-mission almost the least possible, so as to test the engine itselfbefore the chains which draw the bridge backward and forwardhad been applied. With the steam cut off thus early there…
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