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 331
h is pushed up-ward, at the same time transmitting its movement tothe pencil. The indicator piston will rise and fall inaccordance with the steam-pressure in the cylinder ; and,the circular movement of the drum coinciding with thecross-head movement, the pencil will describe a diagramwhich… … Fig. 32 valve-motion cutting off steam at about one-third of thestroke. In the figure, the line I J represents the line THE STEAM ENGINE INDICATOR. 307 that would be drawn by the pencil when no steam isadmitted to the indicator piston ; so it is called the at-mospheric line. This is the neutral…
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