Stationary steam engines; especially as adapted to electric lighting purposes (1884)
Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903 · New York, J. Wiley & sons · leaf 196
itted to such engines, asafeguard is introduced in the form of what engineers areaccustomed to call the breaking-piece, a part which ismade purposely weaker than other portions of the machine,exposed to a common danger, so that this piece may go ELECTRIC LIGHTING PLANTS. 173 when danger arises.… … The Westinghouse Engine.—Cross Section Through Valve. may be knocked out without injury occurring to any impor-tant, or costly, part of the structure.* * The writer planned an engine, about the year 1860 in which the wholecylinder-head was made a safety valve which could lift and discharge the…
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