Stationary steam engines; especially as adapted to electric lighting purposes (1884)
Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903 · New York, J. Wiley & sons · leaf 135
as those parts canwell be made. The growth of the engine into its presentshape, from the first crude sketches made in 1869, to thefinished engine and completed type of to-day, and especiallythe gradual evolvement of the governor and valve gear fromthe older forms, would be an interesting subject of… … 114 STEAM ENGINES FOR to the driving of electric lighting apparatus. In Pen-neys arrangement of a station of 120 lights, theconnection of power to dynamo is effected throughfriction clutches, which may, at any instant, be thrownout or thrown in ; any two of the engines have amplepower to drive all…
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