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 276
hes anddecimal fractions of a square inch, and when the areais thus known it is an easy matter to obtain the aver- DIAGRAM ANALYSIS 263 age height by simply dividing the area in inches bythe length of the diagram in inches. Having ascer-tained the average height of the diagram in inches orfractions… … figure 93. inches and decimals of an inch, by the scale, anddividing the product by the length of the diagram ininches. The result will be the same as before, andtroublesome fractions will be avoided. Questionsi. What advantage is gained by placing the valvesof a corliss engine in the cylinder…
