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 64
ntage of loss of the increasedquantity of steam worked off by the engine becomes theleast possible. The engine does a greater amount of work,and is subject to less loss. Thus the work to be done beingfixed, it is done by a smaller, and, other things being equal,a less costly engine, and at the same…
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