Twentieth century handbook for steam engineers and electricians, with questions and answers; a practical nontechnical treatise on the care and management of steam engines, boilers and electric machinery (1922)
Swingle, Calvin Franklin, 1846- [from old catalog] · Chicago, F. J. Drake & company · leaf 368
is type of condenser can only be used where the dis-charge pipe has a free outlet. The jet condenser with air pump attached is the mostreliable as well as economical for general purposes, for thereason that with this type the supply of condensing watermay be drawn from a well or other source lower… … Fig. 113knowles jet condenser or tank, for the purpose of letting cold water into the con-denser to condense the exhaust steam when starting theengine, and thus aid in forming a- vacuum. AVhen a good 356 Steam Engineering vacuum has been established and the engine is running up.to speedy the force…
