A Treatise on the Steam Engine: In Its Application to Mines, Mills, Steam Navigation, and RailwaysLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1847 - 258 páginas |
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... cause all the water to pass through the tube . " De Caus also mentions a scheme of a solar fountain , but it , as well as the preceding , are merely clumsy imitations of some of the contrivances described by Hero . He gives the ...
... cause all the water to pass through the tube . " De Caus also mentions a scheme of a solar fountain , but it , as well as the preceding , are merely clumsy imitations of some of the contrivances described by Hero . He gives the ...
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... causes are there pointed out , with considerable fulness of detail , which must prohibit its success . The whole of the contrivances we have hitherto enumerated are mere mechanical toys , and although not incapable of useful ...
... causes are there pointed out , with considerable fulness of detail , which must prohibit its success . The whole of the contrivances we have hitherto enumerated are mere mechanical toys , and although not incapable of useful ...
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... cause of this motion and force , and that as steam is but water rarefied , the boiler L must in some certain time be emptied , so as the work of the engine must stop to replenish the boiler , or endanger the burning out or melting the ...
... cause of this motion and force , and that as steam is but water rarefied , the boiler L must in some certain time be emptied , so as the work of the engine must stop to replenish the boiler , or endanger the burning out or melting the ...
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... cause of the total exaltation . As we have several times mentioned the name of Papin , we must , we suppose , say who he was . Denys Papin , then , was born at Blois , in France , and was educated to the profession of medicine . Being a ...
... cause of the total exaltation . As we have several times mentioned the name of Papin , we must , we suppose , say who he was . Denys Papin , then , was born at Blois , in France , and was educated to the profession of medicine . Being a ...
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... cause a loss of about 360 cubic feet per minute , leaving a loss of above 950 cubic feet per minute , to be accounted for by leakage and condensation , or indeed by condensation alone , as the leakage was inappre- ciable . The internal ...
... cause a loss of about 360 cubic feet per minute , leaving a loss of above 950 cubic feet per minute , to be accounted for by leakage and condensation , or indeed by condensation alone , as the leakage was inappre- ciable . The internal ...
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