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 145
ms Engine, of the styles com-monly used in driving electric light machinery. The bedis seen to be of the kind already described in the accountof the Porter-Allen engine, heavy, solid, stiff, yet neat, andeven graceful, taking the bending stresses of the guides atits upper surface, and insured… … Crank-pin and Wiper. the other of which is the pulley, from which the engine isbelted to its work. The steam cylinder is overhung, andthe exhaust pipe is carried down below the floor, clear ofthe foundation, which latter has a minimum extent, andcost, while amply heavy, and is long and strong…
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