The Steam Engine and the Indicator: Their Origin and Progressive Development; Including the Most Recent Examples of Steam and Gas Motors, Together with the Indicator, Its Principles, Its Utility, and Its Application

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H.C. Baird & Company, 1889 - Broj stranica: 453
 

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Result of the trial
50
Temperature of the boiling point on what it depends Ideal zero of aque
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New engine designed by Mr Sweet
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Mean pressure how calculated Ratio or grade of expansion how calcu
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Table of initial and mean effective pressure in the cylinder Expansion
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Terminal pressure Rule for finding the pressure at the end of the stroke
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Attraction of gravity as a general standard of resistance
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CHAPTER VII
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Watts method of calculating the power of his engine What the term
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Horsepower by the indicator Manner of obtaining the indicated horse
102
Directions for using the planimeter with illustration
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Indicated horsepower Effective horsepower Engine friction Percent
114
How to find the mean pressure above the atmosphere during the stroke
120
Manner of drawing the line of boiler pressure on diagrams for noncondens
121
The line of boiler pressure The clearance line
127
Lead allowed by the Baldwin Locomotive Works Regulation of the steam
140
Great value of the wavy lines Means of diminishing the extent of
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The correctness affected by long cards The record obtained by the indi
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Determination between nominal indicated and effective horse power
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Difference between gases and vapors Relationship between the pressure
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The greatest quantity of work obtained in practice from a given quantity
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Method of drawing the diagram showing the total opposing forces The
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Clearance What is meant by clearance The effect of clearance
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Modification of the diagram required for its completion with illustration
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CHAPTER XI
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Ideal expansion diagram The further advantage of variable expansion
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How a direct loss occurs in the noncondensing engine with illustration
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Alternate heating and cooling of a cylinder covered with nonconducting
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Extension of the use of the steamjacket Disadvantages of jacketing with
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The exact relation of the condenser Jet condenser Extent of the vacuum
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The theoretical diagram expanding twelve times in a simple engine
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Advantages of the compound steam engine
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90
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127
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How the relative economy of different engines may be illustrated
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Diagrams from M Mallets locomotive Economy of fuel with compound
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Failure in this country of the compound locomotives as economizers of fuel
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The exhaust line Means of getting rid of the pressure of steam before
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Watts experiments to determine a horsepower The unit of power express
336
Spiels petroleum engine
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Gas and steamengine heat efficiency
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Diagram from a pumping engine
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Diagrams from an upright automatic cutoff engine see Figs 178 179 180
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Mr Nystrom
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Trial of Mr Nystroms instrument at Fairmount and other steam pumping
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Diagram showing the mean of all the indicator cards during the test Dia
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Trial of the Southwark engine
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Mean indicator card Water accounted for by the indicator cards
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203
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Bodies falling in a vacuum Reason why heavy bodies fall faster than light
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The steamjacket first used by Watt Principle of the steamjacket Con
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Rule for finding the areas of larger circles Properties of water and steam
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Steam or aqueous vapor The ideal zero of aqueous vapor
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High pressure steam Steel vs iron
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The use of an entirely unprotected cylinder wrong and wasteful with illus
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Backpressure or line of counterpressure Pressure of condensation
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Lead what it means Definition of the lead of a valve Outside and inside
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The reason why mild steel plates are preferred to the best iron plates
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