The steam engine and turbine; a text-book for engineering colleges (1911)
Heck, Robert Culbertson Hays, 1870- · New York, D. Van Nostrand company · leaf 338
especially important in engines that have to start frequently againsttheir full resistance, as locomotives, hoisting engines, and the like: andthese are always made duplex, with cranks at right angles. Of course,a compound engine, with each cylinder driving its crank, will have thesame action:… … Fig. 178. — Circular Diagrams Combined. An example showing the simplest case of this combined action isgiven in Figs. 178 and 179, which represent the working of a duplex 324 WORKING AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE ENGINE. [Chap. VII. simple engine with cranks at right angles. The two turning-forcecurves…
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