Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics (1892)
Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 514
in consump-tion of steam, and of 24 per cent in consuniption of wood. 2. Admission of steam into thejackets does not sensibly affect the consumption of steam in the ordinary engine ; while inthe compound engine it produces an injurious efifect, increasing the consumption of water andwood per… … 490 LOCOMOTIVES. lbs. per sq. in., is obtained in practice from 1 lb. of petroleum refuse, while anthracite givesan evaporation of only 7 to 7A lbs., showing that the practical evaporative power of petroleumis from G8 to 7o per cent higher tlian that of anthracite. Theoretically the petroleum…
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