The steam engine and turbine; a text-book for engineering colleges (1911)
Heck, Robert Culbertson Hays, 1870- · New York, D. Van Nostrand company · leaf 29
each end of thecylinder. (i) The Indicator and its Diagram. — The performance of thesteam, controlled by and resultant from the action of the valve, isbest shown by the steam diagram, of which a typical example is givenin Fig. 11. This is drawn autographic ally by an instrument called… … Fig. 10. — The Steam-engine Indicator, Crosby design. system, with horizontal abscissas showing travel or displacement ofthe engine piston along its stroke Hne, vertical ordinates showing thepressure which existed when the piston was at each successive position.By means of a short pipe, with a…
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