Locomotive catechism; an up-to-date, practical and complete work on the locomotive--treating on the design, construction, repair and running of all kinds of locomotives .. (1908)
Grimshaw, Robert, 1850- [from old catalog] · New York, The N. W. Henley publishing company · leaf 819
is the same as that governing the ordinary 804 LOCOMOTIVE CATECHISM. turbine waterwheel; there is a rotating casing having jets orpassages set obliquely to the radii; steam emerging from thisat high pressure drives the wheel around at high speed, partlyowing to the fact that the jets of steam… … Fig. 436. Rear View of Lamp and Reflector. leave it with practically none at all, its force and motion beingimparted to the wheel. Q. What controls the speed of this engine? A. A governor of the so-called centrifugal type, havingweights revolving about an axis and tending to separate withincrease…
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