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 311
vantage of permitting a dy-namo to be employed having but two poles. It may bereadily driven continuously at speeds exceeding 10,000revolutions per minute, and, like the Dow turbine, elsewherereferred to, has been driven at 20,000 and upward. Withthe lower speeds of revolution usual with ordinary… … ELECTRIC LIGHTING PLANTS. 279 pounds of steam per horse-power per hour upward, accord-ing to pressure employed. It may be assumed that theywill require not far from the weight V}: where p^ lies between 50 and 200 pounds per square inchby gauge and the apparatus is operated under…
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