Steam engines, prepared in the Extension division of the University of Wisconsin (1919)
Shealy, Edward Marvin · New York, McGraw-Hill · leaf 245
the engine transmits only one-half of the power,the parts of the engine are made smaller, but the larger numberof parts makes this type of engine more expensive than the tan-dem-compound. The exhaust pipe from the high-pressurecylinder extends across to the low-pressure cylinder and containsa… … Fig. 149. above is quite different. In the tandem engine the pistonshave the same length of stroke, and move in unison with eachother, beginning a stroke at the same time and ending it at thesame time. For this reason the steam exhausted from the high-pressure cylinder may be passed directly into…
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