Stationary steam engines, simple and compound; especially as adapted to light and power plants (1902)
Thurston, Robert H[enry], 1839-1903. [from old catalog] · New York, J. Wiley & sons; London, Chapman & Hall, limited · leaf 106
on which especially fit them for use indirect connection. This latter class of engines, however,exhibit some differences among themselves which are im-portant and very interesting to the engineer and the userof steam power. The engine last described will have been seen to differ,in a very notable… … ELECTRIC LIGHTING PLANTS. 85 sembles the last in its general features—the use of a cut-offvalve riding on a seat formed upon or in the single mainvalve, a system original in principle with Meyer, an engineerwell-known, years ago, in Europe, and the use of the pecu-liar form of governor which adapts…
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