Hutton, Frederick Remsen, 1853-1918 · New York, J. Wiley & sons; London, Chapman & Hall, limited · leaf 173
the boiler as the additional cylinder. This is manifestfrom the fact that it is the low-pressure cylinder which is fullof steam when the exhaust takes place, and is therefore thearea upon which the average or mean pressure is to be com-puted. In the triple- or quadruple-expansion engine the 120… … Fig. 91. the compound engine with continuous expansion in more thanone cylinder was first proposed by Hornblower (1781), and waspatented by Woolf in 1804. The feature of action in these SIMPLE AND COMPOUND ENGINES. 121 early or Woolf engines was that the pistons were movingeither in the same…
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