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 511
oke than it should be, while cut offon the crank end occurs a little too soon. This is also shown by measurement of the mean effectivepressures, that on the crank end being 42.1 pounds whilethat from the head end is 48.2 pounds, showing that thereis 48.2 minus 42.1 equals 6.1 pounds more M. E. P.… … Fig. 181 v j its surface during the stroke from the head of the cylinder ^|than it has on the opposite stroke. It also means that the strains are unequally divided sof^ as regards the moving parts of the engine. The en-gineer in charge reports that he has lots of trouble with hisengine in his…
