The steam engine and turbine; a text-book for engineering colleges (1911)
Heck, Robert Culbertson Hays, 1870- · New York, D. Van Nostrand company · leaf 65
ars that isothermal operations at the respective 50 ELEMENTARY THEORY OF THE HEAT ENGINE. [Chap. II. temperatures best meet the requirement just stated. But besidesexpansion at a constant high temperature and compression at a constantlow temperature, there must be a drop from the high to the low… … Fig. 33. — The Ideal Heat Engine. (d) The Carnot Cycle. — The French scientist Carnot first de-vised the cycle made up of two isothermals and two adiabatics. Theessential apparatus is outlined and the diagram of the cycle given inFig. 33. This ideal engine uses a confined body of air, which is…
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