The Steam Engine Explained and Illustrated: With an Account of Its Invention and Progressive Improvement, and Its Application to Navigation and Railways; Including Also a Memoir of WattTaylor and Walton, 1840 - 535 páginas |
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... fire necessarily acts on the water in two ways : first , by its radiant heat ; and second , by the current of heated ... box B , the bottom of which is furnished with the grate on which the fuel is placed . This box is composed of two ...
... fire necessarily acts on the water in two ways : first , by its radiant heat ; and second , by the current of heated ... box B , the bottom of which is furnished with the grate on which the fuel is placed . This box is composed of two ...
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... fire - box , and at the other with the chimney , and form a passage for the heated air from the furnace to the chimney . The ignited fuel spread on the grate at the bottom of the fire - box disperses its heat by radi- ation , and acts ...
... fire - box , and at the other with the chimney , and form a passage for the heated air from the furnace to the chimney . The ignited fuel spread on the grate at the bottom of the fire - box disperses its heat by radi- ation , and acts ...
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... fire - box , is carried by the draught through the tubes which extend through the lower part of the boiler ; and as these tubes are surrounded on every side with the water contained in the boiler , this air transmits its heat through ...
... fire - box , is carried by the draught through the tubes which extend through the lower part of the boiler ; and as these tubes are surrounded on every side with the water contained in the boiler , this air transmits its heat through ...
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... fire - box ; and in fig . 102. is represented a cross vertical section through the fire - box , and at right angles to the length of the engine , showing the interior of the boiler above and beside the fire - box , the rivets and bolts ...
... fire - box ; and in fig . 102. is represented a cross vertical section through the fire - box , and at right angles to the length of the engine , showing the interior of the boiler above and beside the fire - box , the rivets and bolts ...
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... fire - box to the smoke - box F are represented at E. Upon the smoke - box is erected the chimney G. In the engine from which this drawing has been taken , and which was used on the London and Birmingham Railway , the boiler is a ...
... fire - box to the smoke - box F are represented at E. Upon the smoke - box is erected the chimney G. In the engine from which this drawing has been taken , and which was used on the London and Birmingham Railway , the boiler is a ...
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admitted air-pump already described amount applied ascend atmospheric engine atmospheric pressure attached axle beam boiler boiling bottom Boulton and Watt carriage centre chimney cistern closed coals cock cold water combustion communication condenser connecting rod constructed contrivance crank cubic cylinder descending diameter diminished driving elastic equal evaporation expansion experiments feet filled fire fire-box flues fly-wheel force fuel furnace greater heat HERO OF ALEXANDRIA imparted improved increased invention James Watt lever load locomotive engines machine magnitude means mechanical effect mercury method miles motion moving power necessary opened parallel motion passage passing pipe piston piston-rod placed plate position pounds pressed principle produced propelling proportion pump quantity of water railway raised rendered represented in fig resistance Samuel Morland screws slide space speed square inch steam engine stroke sufficient sun wheel supply suppose surface temperature thermometer throttle-valve tube upwards vacuum valve vapour velocity vertical vessel Watt weight wheels