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 52
The Greene engine *is an engine fitted with such a valve-motion. ELECTRIC LIGHTING PLANTS, 41 In the accompanying illustration,1 which exhibits thismachine, the valves are seen to be four in number, as in theengines already described. They are flat valves, instead ofcylindrical, and are thought by… … Greene Valve Motion. give it motion parallel to the centre line of the cylinder, andwith a movement co-incident, as to time, with the motionof the piston; of a pair of tappets, C, C, set in this bar 1. Hist, of the Growth of the Seam Engine D. Appleton & Co., N. Y., 1878. 42 STEAM ENGINES FOR…
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