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 142
n older fields of work as well. The loss of power inthe jack-shafts, or first motion shafts, of mills andworkshops driven by the low-speed engines is an item ofno inconsiderable amount in many cases. The tendencyis now observable toward the adoption of the high-speedengine, even where not quite as… … 120 S TEA M ENGINES FOR engines. The author, in handling naval screw engines ofshort stroke and high speed, has frequently observed thisfact, and, after a somewhat wide range of experience withengines of long and of short stroke, of from 15 to 500 revo-lutions, and of powers ranging from the toy…
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