Practical hand book of gas, oil and steam engines, stationary, marine, traction; gas burners, oil burners, etc.; farm, traction, automobile, locomotive; a simple, practical and comprehensive book on the construction, operation and repair of all kinds of engines (1916)
Rathbun, John B. [from old catalog] · Chicago, Charles C. Thompson co · leaf 355
to pre-vent steam passing the piston, and free enough to allow thepiston to slide without unnecessary friction. The reciprocatingpiston is connected to the crank through a connecting rod bywhich the pressure on the piston is communicated to the crank arm. The pressure exerted on the crank pin by… … ing to turn the crank. As power is the rate or distance throughwhich the force acts in a unit of time it is obvious that thepower developed by the engine is equal (in foot pounds) to theforce in pounds multiplied by the velocity of the piston in feetper minute. Since there are 33,000 foot pound…
Internal combustion engines · Traction-engines
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