Twentieth century hand-book for steam engineers and electricians with questions and answers; a practical non-technical treatise .. (1913)
Swingle, Calvin Franklin, 1846- [from old catalog] · Chicago, F. J. Drake & company · leaf 763
rrect^ too longan exhaust pipey too many bends or too small a diameterof same. If the compression curve B C, Fig. 312^ shows a lack ofsufficient compression pressure and all other conditionsare perfect^ this is probably due to leaky piston rings,valves^ or joints. Figure 317 shows a low spring card… … The mean effective pressure of gas engme diagrams isfound by precisely the same method as that pursued withdiagrams from steam engines. Indicated Horse Power.—This is a computation basedupon the mean effective pressure developed at each ex-plosion and is usually calculated from the same…
