Stationary steam engines, simple and compound; especially as adapted to light and power plants (1899)
Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903 · New York, J. Wiley & Sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 112
and oflength while at work, that they never have a definite andcalculable strength, that they are liable to break in mostunaccountable ways, and at most unreasonable and unex-pected times, and that the adjustment of a balance betweenthe two equilibrating forces is often difficult and almost… … The Cummer Governor Section. in this direction, both in the use and in the observationof the steel spring for a wide variety of applicatioiis,and has never yet seen reason to condemn them uni-e- 92 STEAM ENGINES FOR servedly. The principal objection which can be urgedagainst the governor of this…
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