Twentieth century handbook for steam engineers and electricians, with questions and answers; a practical nontechnical treatise .. (1916)
Swingle, Calvin F. (Calvin Franklin), b. 1846 · Chicago, F.J. Drake & company · leaf 513
hevalves had previously been set by the erecting engineer atthe time the engines were set up. Each one of these en-gines exhausted into a separate condenser of the Jet type,into which the condensing water was forced under pressure,and from which the overflow was discharged by gravityinto a sewer.… … Fig. 183 For convenience the diagrams from each engine will betreated in numerical order, beginning with engine No. 1.This engine was 24x48 inches, running 70 E. P. M., witha boiler pressure of 68 pounds. A 40 spring was used inthe indicator. The principal defect was the lack of suffi-cient lead on…
