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 428
est perimeter relatively with the immersed sectionalarea; but the triangular portion m n is added both to preventthe vessel from rolling inconveniently, and to bring the outlineinto the waving curve which other considerations point out asthe most eligible. One of these considerations, as already… … altering the form of a liquid, as in altering the form of a solid,there is a certain expenditure of force; and although this ex-penditure in the case of a liquid is relatively very small, it islarge enough to be worthy of attention in a case where largeamounts are consumed in giving motion to…
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