Steam Engines
by Anonymous
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Language: English
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About this eBook
- 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.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.MACHINERY’S REFERENCE SERIES
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.CHAPTER I — ACTION OF STEAM ENGINES — Principle of the Steam Engine — Work Diagram — Definitions Relating to Engine Diagrams — Construction of Ideal Diagram
- 5.CHAPTER II — RATING AND GENERAL PROPORTIONS OF STEAM ENGINES
- 6.CHAPTER III — STEAM ENGINE DETAILS — The Slide Valve — The Eccentric — Different Types of Valves — Engine Details
- 7.CHAPTER IV — STEAM ENGINE ECONOMY — Multiple Expansion Engines — Steam Consumption and Ratio of Expansion — Effect of Condensing
- 8.CHAPTER V — TYPES OF STEAM ENGINES — Selection of an Engine
- 9.CHAPTER VI — STEAM ENGINE TESTING — Planimeter — Determining Steam Consumption
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