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 76
ntage of loss of the increasedquantity of steam worked off by the engine becomes theleast possible. The engine does a greater amount of work,and is subject to less loss. Thus the work to be done beingfixed, it is done by a smaller, and, other things being equal,a less costly engine, and at the same… … w %\ ELECTRIC LIGHTING PLANTS. 55 many years, these points had not, up to a comparativelyrecent time,been recognized by constructing engineers, andtheir progress had been slow and difficult. The older firmswho were engaged in the building of what were then calledexpansion engines, were the first to…
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