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The mechanical engineering of power plants (1897)

Hutton, Frederick Remsen, 1853- [from old catalog] · New York, J. Wiley & sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 153

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d types which havepreceded, the steam has entered the working cylinder fromthe boiler, and after doing its work, has been exhausted eitherinto the atmosphere or into a condenser. It has also beenshown that it is of advantage to use the steam in such a wayas to take advantage of the principle of… … Fig. 90. The lower limit of pressure upon the piston is imposed by the lowest temperature usual with condensing water (par. 45). If thus, with a fixed lower limit, the diagram of Fig. 90 116 SIMPLE AND COMPOUND ENGINES. 11)^ be constructed so as to have the initial volume of steamadmitted into the…

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