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 122
in machine work was given in the Department ofMechanical Engineering of Cornell University—a positionin which he became widely known as one of the most skilfuland ingenious mechanical engineers in the United States—later a President of the American Society of MechanicalEngineers. The first of these… … LofC. ELECTRIC LIGHTING PLANTS. points, which will bear much more extended study than theycan be given in the small space which can here be allowedfor the description of the engine. The problem, proposedto himself by the inventor, was to design an engine which,while consisting of the smallest…
Steam-engines
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