The wonders of modern mechanism. A résumé of recent progress in mechanical, physical, and engineering science (1896)
Cochrane, Charles Henry, 1856- · Philadelphia J.B. Lippincott · leaf 106
St. Louis developeda speed of twenty-two and three-quarter knots, whichgives reason for hoping that the new pair may prove thefastest of their kind, though exceeded in size and powerby some of the foreign builds. The St. Louis is fivehundred and fifty-four feet over all, and sixty-three feetbeam,… … ^ THE OCEAN GREYHOUNDS. 101 are of the qiiadruble type, expanding the steam four times.Steam is used at two hundred pounds pressure. Eachengine has six cylinders and four piston-rods. In tlieordinary type of quadruple-expansion engine there arefour cylinders set in line. In the St. Louis the…
Inventions · Mechanical engineering · Machinery
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