The steam engine and turbine; a text-book for engineering colleges (1911)
Heck, Robert Culbertson Hays, 1870- · New York, D. Van Nostrand company · leaf 196
early a constant, falling off slightlytoward both ends of the range of m.e.p. Fig. 90 makes clearly evidentthe way in which the increasing relative size of the missing quantitycuts down the effective work area, soon neutrahzing the gain fromlonger expansion. Test 8 shows about the condition of best… … Fig. 91. — Tests of 36 by 96 in. Low-pressure Condensing Engine, U. S. S. Michigan,made in 1860. Isherwood, Researches in Steam Engineering, Vol. I, pages 9lto 120. Paddle-wheel revenue cutter, duplex engine, one cylinder used in tests,vessel moored to dock. Boiler pressure 20 lb. by gage, speed 11…
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