A manual of the mechanics of engineering and of the construction of machines. Designed as a text-book for technical schools and colleges, and for the use of engineers, architects, etc. (1878)
Weisbach, Julius Ludwig, 1806-1871, Du Bois, A. Jay (Augustus Jay), 1849-1915, Buel, Richard H. (Richard Hooker), b. 1842 · New York. J. Wiley & Sons, 1878- · leaf 199
STEAM, AND STEAM ENGINES. [§ 419- carbonic oxide. While i lb. of good pit or hard coal aswell as pure carbon furnish, by complete combustion, nearly8000 heat-units, i lb. of carbonic oxide gas gives only2400 heat-units, and i lb. of blast-furnace gas only 900 heat-units, while illuminating gas… … reservoir A, then conducted through the branch tubesB C, B C, into the canals, C, C, and from these through arow of side canals as CD, CD into the furnace. The steamboiler K has its lower half surrounded by the gas, the com-bustion of which is maintained by a thin layer of coalspread over the grate…
Mechanics, Applied · Mechanical engineering
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