Locomotive engine running and management : a treatise on locomotive engines, showing their performance in running different kinds of trains with economy and dispatch; also directions regarding the care, management, and repairs of locomotives and all their connections (1888)
Sinclair, Angus, 1841-1919 · New York : J. Wiley · leaf 160
adjustmentfor changes in steam-pressure or water-supply; thewaste-valve being kept closed while the instrument is inoperation, except at the time of starting. The duplexnozzle arrangement of the Hancock inspirator enablesthat instrument to feed water of high temperature. Inthis respect it will act… … overflow. Fig. 5. 136 LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE RUNNnVG. CHAPTER XII. BOILERS AND FIRE-BOXES. CARE OF LOCOMOTIVE BOILERS. The present tendency of steam engineering, in theeffort to increase the work performed in return forevery pound of fuel consumed, is to employ steam ofvery high pressure. The greater…
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