Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 787
which varies directly as the boiler pressureand as the square of the diameter of the cylinder.In practice, however, the horse-power developed better basis than horse-power for comparison ofthe different locomotives. This force is proportional to the boiler pressureand to the size of the cylinder,… … 999. AN JMERICAX TYPELOCOMOTIVE OF 1893. One of the wonders of its day.It hauled the Empire State Kx-_ press 10 miles in 5 minutes and 20seconds, or at the rate of a mile in32 seconds, or 112^ miles per hour. by a locomotive is subject to so many variationsthat the builders prefer not to state…
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