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 554
s engine has the general appearance ofan ordinary steam engine with horizontal cylinder. It has,like the Corliss engine (Fig. 770), four gas ways and twodistribution valves, by which the ways are alternatelyopened and closed, two at a time. The arrangement andaction of such an engine are seen from… … tries, F and F, the conducting pipes for the gas, and Gand G, passages communicating with the air, by which theair is brought into union with the gas, and the products ofcombustion escape. In the position shown in the figure,the outer air enters at G, and soon afterwards gas entersthrough F, both…
Mechanics, Applied · Mechanical engineering
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