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Steam Engines

Steam Engines

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Author
Anonymous
Credits
E-text prepared by Chris Curnow, Harry Lamé, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( www.archive.org)
Language
English
LoC Class
TJ: Technology: Mechanical engineering and machinery
Subject
Steam-engines
Category
Text
eBook-No.
34701
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34701
Release Date
December 19, 2010
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.E-text prepared by Chris Curnow, Harry Lamé, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( http://www.pgdp.net ) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( http://www.archive.org )
  2. 2.MACHINERY’S REFERENCE SERIES
  3. 3.CONTENTS
  4. 4.CHAPTER I — ACTION OF STEAM ENGINES — Principle of the Steam Engine — Work Diagram — Definitions Relating to Engine Diagrams — Construction of Ideal Diagram
  5. 5.CHAPTER II — RATING AND GENERAL PROPORTIONS OF STEAM ENGINES
  6. 6.CHAPTER III — STEAM ENGINE DETAILS — The Slide Valve — The Eccentric — Different Types of Valves — Engine Details
  7. 7.CHAPTER IV — STEAM ENGINE ECONOMY — Multiple Expansion Engines — Steam Consumption and Ratio of Expansion — Effect of Condensing
  8. 8.CHAPTER V — TYPES OF STEAM ENGINES — Selection of an Engine
  9. 9.CHAPTER VI — STEAM ENGINE TESTING — Planimeter — Determining Steam Consumption

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