Thermodynamics of the steam-engine and other heat-engines (1898)
Peabody, Cecil Hobart, 1855-1934 · New York, Wiley · leaf 313
and expansionin the cylinder. Thus on page 238 it is shown thatcomplete expansion to the back-pressure gives a higher effi-ciency than incomplete expansion with a drop at release. Butmany experiments, for example those by Isherwood on theU. S. S. Michigan in 1861, showed conclusively that the… … From the accompanying table of conditions and results itappears that for the engines of the Michigan the best econ-omy in steam-consumption is given for a cut-off at \ ofthe stroke. The same result is shown even more clearly by adiagram in which each cut-off is laid off as an abscissa and…
Thermodynamics · Steam-engines · Heat-engines
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