Twentieth century hand-book for steam engineers and electricians, with questions and answers .. (1905)
Swingle, C. F. [from old catalog], Horstmann, Henry Charles, 1858- [from old catalog], Tousley, Victor Hugo, 1875- [from old catalog] · Chicago, F. J. Drake & co. · leaf 226
muchbetter valve performance. The horse power developedwas 251 and the steam consumption was 20.5 lbs. perI. H. P. per hour. The rather high rate of steamconsumption for this engine as compared with engineNo. 1, which was the same size but consumed only 18lbs. of steam per I. H. P. per hour, was… … figure 58. been running about eight or nine months when it fellto the authors lot to apply the indicator to the engine,not only for the purpose of adjusting the valve motion,but also to make a series of tests for the purpose ofascertaining the amount of power delivered by theengine to each one of…
