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 91
ing thiscontingency, and to making their machines safe againstaccident. These precautions are seen to be the strengthen-ing, and especially the stiffening, of all the parts exposed tothe stresses due to the action of inertia in the reciprocatingpieces; the adjustment of all parts to each other in… … ELECTRIC LIGHTING PLANTS. Gg a Steam cylinder that only lacked three-eighths of an inchof being truly cylindrical; the builder of the high speedengine of to-day works to the thousandth of an inch, inlongitudinal measurements, and gets his cylindrical journalsexact to the twenty thousandth, perhaps…
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