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 - 453 sider
 

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Latent heat and the heat of chemical combination Explanation of latent
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Terminal pressure Rule for finding the pressure at the end of the stroke
78
Locomotive engines Diagram from a Baldwin fourdriver locomotive
81
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
96
Horsepower by the indicator Manner of obtaining the indicated horse
102
Directions for using the planimeter with illustration
108
Indicated horsepower Effective horsepower Engine friction Percent
114
Diagrams from an English locomotive Engines of the London and North
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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 best method of calculating the clearance Division of the outline
127
Backpressure or line of counterpressure Pressure of condensation
133
Lead what it means Definition of the lead of a valve Outside and inside
139
Lead allowed by the Baldwin Locomotive Works Regulation of the steam
140
Gross indicated horse power how obtained
155
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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Diagram showing the total opposing forces
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Modification of the diagram required for its completion with illustration
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CHAPTER XI
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Increase in efficacy by cutting off the steam Expansion of steam
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Ideal expansion diagram The further advantage of variable expansion
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Mean pressure how calculated Ratio or grade of expansion how calcu
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The value of short strokes and high rotative speeds
207
Indicator diagram from an expansive engine with a nonjacketed cylinder
216
Advantages of employing an independent condensing apparatus Amount
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Increase in the duty of an engine by high pressure of steam and expand
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Definition of the real horsepower Means of raising ore in use by the early
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Calculation of the horse power of a single acting pumping engine Double
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Diagrams from a compound condensing triple expansion engine
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Failure in this country of the compound locomotives as economizers of fuel
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The distinct types of gasengines at the present time
313
The Otto and Langen atmospheric gasengine Its drawbacks and advan
319
Diagrams from the Clerk gasengine
326
Arrangement of the Atkinson gasengine
332
Table of real percentages of heat actually turned into work etc
338
Dowsons watergas Apparatus for manufacturing the gas
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Indicator diagrams from a condensing engine
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155
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Diagrams from a pair of automatic condensing engines from a condensing
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Diagrams from a locomotive of the Southern Pacific Railroad
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CHAPTER XVI
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Backpressure Cause of the mean backpressure exceeding the pressure
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Explanation of Table No 8 Example for use of Table No 8
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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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Conclusion Causes which influence the form of the indicator diagram
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Watts experiments to determine a horsepower The unit of power express
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Bodies falling in a vacuum Reason why heavy bodies fall faster than light
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Hyperbolic logarithms Table for hyperbolic logarithms for numbers
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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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Manner of finding the mean pressure for any intermediate point of
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The use of an entirely unprotected cylinder wrong and wasteful with illus
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Diagrams presenting a summary of successive improvements in the steam
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The reason why mild steel plates are preferred to the best iron plates
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