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 140
using a Prony brake to take up thepower, counted 233 revolutions, light, and 232, loadedwith above forty horse-power ; with lower steam, thefigures became 231 and 230. A well-balanced valveand a nearly frictionless governor are the elements givingsuccess here. Every good engine, driving dynamos, is… … Vertical Straight Line Engine. i t 6 STEAM ENGINES FOR IV.Engines Capable of Direct Connection.—{Continued^ THE ARMINGTON AND SIMS ENGINE. THE engine last described, and that to be here examined,are the result of an attempt on the part of their design-ers to secure a form of engine which should not…
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