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 201
the reduced labor ofattendance ; the compactness, solidity, steadiness, safety atmaximum speeds, and general effectiveness are such as tomake it one of the most interesting of all the modern formsof steam-engine. The forms of simple engine illustrated in the describedfigure and the last engraving… … Westinghouse Compound Engine Diagram. tribution being effected by the same valve, as shown ; thesteam rejected from the smaller engine being passed intothe larger, and thence into the condenser or into the atmos-phere. The principles of the compound engine will be dis-cussed in the next chapter ;…
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