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 234
eras to produce undue friction and heating, while it is looseenough to work smoothly, and yet tight enough to preventleakage of steam past its shell. The valve of the low-pres-sure cylinder is worked by an independent, fixed, eccentric,and the expansion is adjusted by the action of the… … 208 STEAM ENGINES FOR ventor has also planned a triple-expansion vertical engineof equal simplicity.
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