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 237
s insure it more or less fullyagainst leakage ; the pistons and stuffing-boxes used aremore easily got at than ordinarily with engines of the tandem type. One of the earliest to adopt compounding as a system ofstandard construction was Mr. Thompson in the Buckeye engine in 1879. This engine, tested…
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