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The mechanical engineering of power plants (1906)

Hutton, Frederick Remsen, 1853-1918 · New York, J. Wiley & sons; London, Chapman & Hall, limited · leaf 80

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Fig. 20. THE MECHANISM OF ENGINES. 39 structure. For stationary practice the inclined engine hasbeen almost limited either to very small designs or to thepractice of pumping-engines. For small designs (Fig. 21)it permits the use of the large-diameter fly-wheel without … Fig. 21. the necessity of a pit below the general level, and for pump-ing-engines it permits a symmetrical arrangement of twocylinders or four cylinders with the pumps below them onthe same rods, and yet the engine does not extend over sogreat an area of ground-plan. In the design exhibited inFig.…

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