Stationary steam engines, simple and compound; especially as adapted to electric lighting purposes (1890)
Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903 · New York, J. Wiley & sons · leaf 113
ectric lighting,and has an excellent record in that field, as well as in cotton 96 STEAM ENGINES FOR and flouring mills, which demand the most perfect possibleregulation. One of these engines (16x36), at the Cincinnati Exhi-bition of 1883, was tested by the committee on electriclighting apparatus… … The indicator cards, of which copies are given aboveas taken from this engine, show the method of distribution ofsteam in engines with positive motion valve-gears, such asare here considered as fitted for direct connection withlarge dynamos, and for high speed generally. The illustra-tion exhibits…
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