American Engineer and Railroad Journal, Volume 77Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation, 1903 |
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Page 389 - Committee is supported by the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Institution of Naval Architects, the Iron and Steel Institute, and the Institution of Electrical Engineers...
Page 308 - The societies represented are the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Institute of Mining Engineers and the American Chemical Society.
Page 117 - The amount of this waste heat will depend upon the amount of steam and its temperature at entrance of the furnace. The quantity of available heat, measured in thermal units, is undoubtedly diminished by the introduction of steam. In an efficient boiler, it is quantity of heat rather than intensity that is wanted. For many manufacturing purposes intensity of heat may be of primary importance, but in a...
Page 277 - ... engine having a front end of the same size as that used at Purdue University, but leave it open to question whether these results are immediately applicable to engines having a considerably larger front end. We are pleased to be able to announce that through the courtesy of one of the members of this association, Mr. JF Deems, General Superintendent of Motive Power and Rolling Stock, of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad and Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway, arrangements have...
Page 310 - The reduction of stresses in rods, levers and jaws due to friction of the foundation brake, and the reduction of braking force due to the same cause and to the action of release springs, should be neglected; because it is considered to be too difficult to determine their value even with a fair degree of accuracy. The location of fulcrum hole in the cylinder lever...
Page 308 - ... individual cases. The test specimens shall be cut cold from the forging or full-sized prolongation of same parallel to the axis of the forging and half-way between the centre and outside, the specimens to be longitudinal, ie, the length of the specimen to correspond with the direction in which the metal is most drawn out or worked. When forgings have large ends or collars, the test specimens shall be taken from a prolongation of the same diameter...
Page 68 - You'll have to wait four hours." "I think not." "Well, maybe you know better than I do, ma'am." "Yes, sir, and maybe you know better than I do whether I . am expecting to travel on that train myself, or whether I am inquiring for a relative that's visiting at my house and wanted me to call here and ask about it and save her the trouble because she's packing up her things and expects to take that train herself, and not me, and...
Page 438 - It is here; we cannot evade it; no substitutes for it have been found; and while the law may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department.
Page 439 - I cannot too much impress upon your mind that labour is the condition which God has imposed on us in every station of life — there is nothing worth having, that can be had without it...
Page 117 - There is quite a wide-spread misconception regarding the part that the steam which is used for atomizing purposes plays in effecting combustion. It is supposed by many that after atomizing the oil the steam is decomposed and that the hydrogen and carbon are again united, thus producing heat and adding to the heat value of the fuel. While it may be true that the presence of steam may change the character and sequence of the chemical reaction, and result in the production of a higher temperature at...