Ripper, William, 1853-1937 · London, New York [etc.] : Longmans, Green and co. · leaf 122
the diagram. The Stephenson link motion fulfils this condition very efficientlyby providing an inci-easingly early closure to exhaust, and an increas-ing lead when linking up takes place at high speed, the combinedeffect of which is to give a large compression corner, shovv-n in Fig.87, and thereby… … 6 8 10 EXPANSIONS Fig. 120. place upon the number of expansions peimissible in a single cylinder,there is a further reason for limiting the number of expansions,namely, the work to be done by the engine in overcoming backpressure and friction ; and this applies to both simple and compoundengines of…
Steam-engines
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