Mechanics of the household; a course of study devoted to domestic machinery and household mechanical appliances (1918)
Keene, E. S. (Edward Spencer), b. 1864 · New York, McGraw-Hill book company, inc.; · leaf 23
Fig. 5.—Diagram showing the arrange-ment of a two-pipe steam plant. 12 MECHANICS OF THE HOUSEHOLD becomes hot it will contain steam at practically the same pressureas that in the supply pipe. This is what takes place in everyworking steam plant. Now suppose that it is desired to heatthe radiator on… … Fig. 6.—A two-pipe steam heating plant. supply and return pipes of the radiator below at the same pres-sure, each tending to send steam into the radiator above at oppo-site ends. This would make a condition exactly the same ag asingle-pipe system, with a supply pipe at both ends of the radiatorand…
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