Steam engines, prepared in the Extension division of the University of Wisconsin (1919)
Shealy, Edward Marvin · New York, McGraw-Hill · leaf 244
y the greaternumber of moving parts. Compound Engines.—Compound engines are divided intotwo classes, based upon the arrangement of cylinders. Theseare called tandem-compound, in which one cylinder is placedbehind the other, and cross-compound, in which the cylindersare placed parallel with each… … Fig. 147. attached to it. The exhaust pipe from the high pressure cylin-der passes directly to the low pressure cylinder, and, as this pipeis short, it has but little storage capacity; therefore it may beconsidered that the high pressure cylinder exhausts directly into
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