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 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. 1S3 For convenience the diagrams from each engine will betreated in numerical order, beginning with engine Xo. 1.This engine was 24x48 inches, running TO 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…
