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 389
as in steam-vessels, where economy of fuel is mostimportant, the counter will not accurately register the workdone, seeing that the resistance is not uniform, and as withoutsome reliable means of determining the power produced in (Lif-erent vessels relatively with the fuel consumed, it is… … BOURNES duty meter. ascertaining and recording the amount of work done by anyengine during a given period of time. The outline of one formof this instrument is exhibited in fig. 40; but I prefer that thecylinder should be horizontal instead of vertical, and that itshould be larger in diameter, and…
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