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 158
ed bycertain peculiarities of design and construction which mark, ELECTRIC LIGHTING PLANTS. ^n in some cases, new departures, in other cases, peculiar ways ofreaching the end at which more familiar devices were aimed.It has been seen that the regulation of the steam enginehas been found to be one… … The Ball Engine. of fuel, or in all running expenses. A slight change ofspeed in an engine driving dynamo-electric machine willseriously injure the value of the light, in nearly every loca-tion, and may sometimes entirely destroy it ; a moderatevariation of speed in the motor of a cotton mill…
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