Hutton, Frederick Remsen, 1853- [from old catalog] · New York, J. Wiley & sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 119
oke in feetto any convenient scale, and the vertical ordinates the pressureon each square inch of the piston at a similar convenient scale,it will appear that the steam flowed into the cylinder from theboiler from the beginning of the stroke until the piston hadmoved through a distance represented… … Fig. 67. pounds to the square inch as there are units of the poundsscale in the vertical height at the end of the diagram. The drop of pressure at the point on the upper line wherethe curve begins was caused by the closure of the valveadmitting steam to the cylinder. This closure is called **…
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