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 525
L. P.cylinder was 266.4, showing a difference of only three horsepower in the amount of work done in each cylinder. Fig. 198 was taken from one of a pair of Fishkill Cor-liss engines connected to a common crank shaft. The en-gines were each 24x48 inches, and run at 65 E. P. M., witha boiler… … Fig. 198 called upon to indicate them and adjust the valves. Adiagram taken at the same time from the mate of this en-gine was very nearly an exact counterpart of Fig. 198.The horse power, as shown by Fig. 198, was 248, and thesteam per I. H. P. per hour was 15.2 pounds. The vacuumgauge showed 27…
