A catechism of the steam engineJohn Williams and Company, 141, Strand, 1885 - 6 páginas |
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actual horse-power air pump amount arrangement axle beam blast pipe bolts bottom Boulton Boulton and Watt brass cast iron centre chimney coal cock combustion compressed condenser connecting rod crank Crown 8vo cube root cubic feet cubic foot cylinder draught eccentric eduction employed equal evaporation expansion explosion feed pump fire-box flange flue force friction fuel furnace gas engines heating surface high-pressure hole horizontal ignition inch of section inches diameter inches of mercury increased length lever locomotive boilers marine boilers marine engines Messrs metal motion moving multiplied paddle vessel passing patent piston rod plates pressure produced proper proportion quantity railway resistance rivets safety valve screw shaft screw vessels sectional area side speed square feet square inch square root steam engine steam pipe steam vessels strain strength stroke surface condensers temperature thickness tion tons trunnions tubes usually vacuum velocity vertical Watt's weight wheels
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