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 |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 67
Página xv
... moving Carriages on Rail- 322 322 323 324 - roads Effects of Railway ... Power The Superiority of the " Rocket " Method of subdividing the Flue into ... Power of Locomotive Engines Position of the Eccentrics · 350 353 354 · 357 - 360 361 ...
... moving Carriages on Rail- 322 322 323 324 - roads Effects of Railway ... Power The Superiority of the " Rocket " Method of subdividing the Flue into ... Power of Locomotive Engines Position of the Eccentrics · 350 353 354 · 357 - 360 361 ...
Página 12
... moving power , is very various and complicated , and cannot be traced to one in- ventor . " If a watchmaker , " says M. Arago , " well instructed in the history of his art , were required to give a categorical answer to the question ...
... moving power , is very various and complicated , and cannot be traced to one in- ventor . " If a watchmaker , " says M. Arago , " well instructed in the history of his art , were required to give a categorical answer to the question ...
Página 23
... moving power . After he recovered his liberty , he accordingly proceeded to carry into effect this conception . The contrivance to which he was ultimately led is described in the following terms in the sixty - eighth inven- tion , in ...
... moving power . After he recovered his liberty , he accordingly proceeded to carry into effect this conception . The contrivance to which he was ultimately led is described in the following terms in the sixty - eighth inven- tion , in ...
Página 37
... moving power by means of a piston working in a cylinder , in the manner which we shall now briefly explain . Let A B ( fig . 7. ) be a cylinder open at the top , and let a piston p be fitted into it , so as to move in it air tight . At ...
... moving power by means of a piston working in a cylinder , in the manner which we shall now briefly explain . Let A B ( fig . 7. ) be a cylinder open at the top , and let a piston p be fitted into it , so as to move in it air tight . At ...
Página 38
... moving power would be obtained which would be capable , by proper mechanism , of being applied to any useful purpose ... move , which by respiration sustains animal life , and is otherwise connected with various important functions of ...
... moving power would be obtained which would be capable , by proper mechanism , of being applied to any useful purpose ... move , which by respiration sustains animal life , and is otherwise connected with various important functions of ...
Índice
75 | |
81 | |
97 | |
113 | |
119 | |
145 | |
148 | |
151 | |
157 | |
163 | |
167 | |
170 | |
184 | |
193 | |
239 | |
251 | |
301 | |
321 | |
328 | |
441 | |
448 | |
454 | |
465 | |
476 | |
487 | |
505 | |
513 | |
516 | |
519 | |
523 | |
524 | |
525 | |
527 | |
528 | |
529 | |
532 | |
534 | |
535 | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Términos y frases comunes
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