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 325
unt of current up to above 3,000 kilo-watt rating, and for any desired method of connection orof distribution of current. They are made single-phase ormultiphase, as needed, and have found their way into usewith extraordinary rapidity, especially for very long distancetransmissions. In fact to-day… … Triple-expansion Engine and Direct-connected Generators. rent; thus, by permitting the steady working of the generat-ing system, giving opportunity to employ economical pro-portions of driving-engines. The tendency of change has ELECTRIC LIGHTING PLANTS. 291 also led in the direction of, as far as…
Steam-engines
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