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 534
ot be lost sight of, viz., clearance andcompression. Especially is this the case in regard to clear-ance when there is little or no compression, for the reasonthat the steam required to fill the clearance space at eachstroke of the engine is practically wasted, and all of itpasses into the… … Fig. 206 pletes the return stroke, the steam then remaining in thecylinder will be compressed into the clearance space and canbe deducted from the total volume which, without compres-sion, would have been exhausted at the terminal pressure.Figs 206 and 207, which are reproductions of diagramstaken…
