The steam engine familiarly explained and illustrated; with an historical sketch of its invention and progressive improvement; its applications to navigation and railways; with plain axioms for railway speculators (1849)
exposed to the steam, and must be heatedwhile the steam continues its action; and when the waterhas been forced out of the vessel, the vessel itself has beenheated to the temperature of the steam which fills it, allwhich heat is dissipated by the subsequent process of con-densation. It must thus be… … SAVERY AND NEWCOMEN. 61 (36.) There is also another circumstance which increasesthe consumption of fuel. The water must be forced throughb, not only against the atmospheric pressure, but also againsta column of 68 feet of water. Steam is therefore required ofa pressure of 45lbs. on the square inch.…
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