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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 340

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ondflume to the bay. Thesechambers enclosing thecold pipes are calledcondensers, and the ex-haust-steam, still veryhot, is led into the con-densers. Here the steam meets the cold pipes and is chilled and con-denses and turns back into water. The sea-water circulating through the condenserstakes up… … AN ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE OF THE NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD. cheap power maker, and economy of opera-tion is the great thing to be desired. We look once more at the giant steam tur-bines and see that each one is driving a greatdynamo or generator of electricity. Here isone key to the question—why are…

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