The Steam Engine and Its Inventors: A Historical SketchMacmillan, 1881 - 260 sider |
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Side xi
... Iron came to be used for cylinders , boilers , and pumps - Dr . Desaguliers recommended the use of brass cylinders to be continued . Remission by Government of the duty on coal consumed by pumping engines in Cornwall - Many engines ...
... Iron came to be used for cylinders , boilers , and pumps - Dr . Desaguliers recommended the use of brass cylinders to be continued . Remission by Government of the duty on coal consumed by pumping engines in Cornwall - Many engines ...
Side xii
... Iron- works - Takes out a patent - Builds an engine at Kinneil , which is found to be much more economical in steam than Newcomen's engine . Dr. Roebuck becomes embarrassed in means - Watt is compelled to abandon his experiments in ...
... Iron- works - Takes out a patent - Builds an engine at Kinneil , which is found to be much more economical in steam than Newcomen's engine . Dr. Roebuck becomes embarrassed in means - Watt is compelled to abandon his experiments in ...
Side 6
... iron and Q wood , and the rounded head R , formed of hard oak , had a groove on its edge which was filled with flax or hemp . The piston was let into the cylinder , and its iron handle was passed through the ring of the arm o ( Fig . 3 ) ...
... iron and Q wood , and the rounded head R , formed of hard oak , had a groove on its edge which was filled with flax or hemp . The piston was let into the cylinder , and its iron handle was passed through the ring of the arm o ( Fig . 3 ) ...
Side 15
... iron or copper , the exami- nation in like manner of the force of water rarefied by fire.3 An account of the experiments made was published by Papin in 1674 , in a memoir entitled " New experi- ments on the vacuum , with a description ...
... iron or copper , the exami- nation in like manner of the force of water rarefied by fire.3 An account of the experiments made was published by Papin in 1674 , in a memoir entitled " New experi- ments on the vacuum , with a description ...
Side 48
... iron rod movable round an axis F ; G a spring pressing the cross - rod E E , so that the said rod must be forced into the groove H as soon as the piston with the handle has arrived at such a height as that the said groove H appears ...
... iron rod movable round an axis F ; G a spring pressing the cross - rod E E , so that the said rod must be forced into the groove H as soon as the piston with the handle has arrived at such a height as that the said groove H appears ...
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afterwards air-pump appears applied atmospheric engine Austhorpe Beighton Blenkinsop's engines boiler Boulton and Watt Boyle built Chacewater chimney Colliery constructed Cornish Engine Cornwall crank Crown 8vo cylinder Davies Gilbert Desaguliers double-acting engine Edition employ steam equilibrium-valve erected Experimental Philosophy experiments Farey feet fire engine fly-wheel force George George Stephenson Glasgow Griff gunpowder high-pressure History Huyghens Ibid improvement inches diameter inches in diameter Inventions of James James Watt John Leeds locomotive engine London machine Mechanical Inventions ments mines motion Muirhead's Newcastle-on-Tyne Newcomen's engine Nicholas Wood North of England obtained Pean pipe piston piston-rod pressure Professor published raising water Robert Stephenson Royal Society Saussaye Savery Savery's engine Smeaton Smiles's Lives steam carriage steam engine steam locomotion steam navigation steam-case stroke success Throckley tons treatise Trevithick tube vacuum valves vessel Vie de Papin waggons Watt's engine Watt's patent weight wheels
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