Self-propelled vehicles; a practical treatise on the theory, construction, operation, care and management of all forms of automobiles (1906)
Homans, James E. (James Edward), b. 1865 · New York, T. Audel & Company · leaf 561
rding to Boyles Law, alreadyquoted, the pressure of the steam is in exactly inverse ratio to 548 SELF-PROPELLED VEHICLES. its expansion, which is to say that when a body of steam is ex-panded to twice its original volume, it should have just one-halfits original pressure, so long as the temperature… … Fig. 399. —Diagram of a Cross Compound Steam Engine. The cranks, C and C, are at90°. The high-pressure steam port is at S; the H. P. exhaust to L. P. cylinder at Rrand the exhaust to atmosphere from the low-pressure cylinder, at E. period. However, for general purposes, the law is assumed tobe…
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