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 326
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… … by a single collection of machinery and with a single crewof workmen and office employees. The art of distributionof stations, where their separation is wise, is well under-stood, and maximum economy of povver- and light-produc-tion has come to be very generallv nttained. 292 STEAM ENGINES FOR In…
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