An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Steam Engine: Comprising a General View of the Various Modes of Employing Elastic Vapour as a Prime Mover in MechanicsJ. Taylor, 1826 - 300 pages |
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Page viii
... action of a running stream , was afterwards em- ployed to give motion to a variety of mills , and is at the present time employed in almost every species of machinery . Among the most celebrated hydraulic machines , we may enumerate the ...
... action of a running stream , was afterwards em- ployed to give motion to a variety of mills , and is at the present time employed in almost every species of machinery . Among the most celebrated hydraulic machines , we may enumerate the ...
Page xi
... gained by the employment of so cheap a prime mover , the vast concentration of force thus brought into immediate action , its value may easily be appreciated . One of the largest engines yet constructed , is now INTRODUCTION . xi.
... gained by the employment of so cheap a prime mover , the vast concentration of force thus brought into immediate action , its value may easily be appreciated . One of the largest engines yet constructed , is now INTRODUCTION . xi.
Page xii
... action at the United Mine in Cornwall ; it raises eighty thousand pounds one hundred feet in height per minute : and to effect this enormous labour , it only requires about thirty pounds of coal for the same period of time . To the ...
... action at the United Mine in Cornwall ; it raises eighty thousand pounds one hundred feet in height per minute : and to effect this enormous labour , it only requires about thirty pounds of coal for the same period of time . To the ...
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... action of the elastic vapour generated with- in . The work in which this engine was first described , was published in 1629. It is exceedingly rare , and the above diagram is accurately copied from an engraving in the. 6 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT.
... action of the elastic vapour generated with- in . The work in which this engine was first described , was published in 1629. It is exceedingly rare , and the above diagram is accurately copied from an engraving in the. 6 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT.
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... action of this machine , we must con- ceive a hollow tube or cylinder , furnished with a piston , made to fit air - tight , and indeed in all respects similar to a common syringe . At the bottom of this are several aper- tures : one to ...
... action of this machine , we must con- ceive a hollow tube or cylinder , furnished with a piston , made to fit air - tight , and indeed in all respects similar to a common syringe . At the bottom of this are several aper- tures : one to ...
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acting action admitted air-pump alternately annulus apparatus applied atmospheric engine axis beam boat bottom Boulton and Watt cast iron cast-iron boilers centre chimney cistern coal cock cold water communication condenser connected considerable construction consumed Cornwall crank cylinder diameter effect elastic vapour employed erected examined expansive force expense feet fire fly-wheel furnace furnished heat high-pressure engine holes Holyhead improvements invention lever London low-pressure machine machinery means mercury Messrs metal Meteor miles per hour mode navigation paddles parallel motion pass passage patent pipe piston piston-rod placed plate pounds pressure produced propelling pump purpose quantity raised ratchet-wheel reciprocating engine revolving river Thames rotatory motion round safety-valve sailing Savery's Saving fuel screws shaft side smoke Sovereign Sovereign seven steam engine steam packets steam vessel steam-boats stroke supply surface tion tube upper vacuum valve velocity Watt's weight wheel wind Woolf wrought wrought-iron boiler Wylam
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Page 6 - So that having a way to make my vessels, so that they are strengthened by the force within them, and the one to fill after the other, I have seen the water run like a constant fountain stream forty foot high : one vessel of water rarefied by fire driveth up forty of cold water.
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Page 185 - ... vessel moves round, it is supplied with steam from the boiler, and that which has performed its office may either be discharged by means of condensers, or into the open air.
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Page 32 - Fourthly, I intend, in many cases, to employ the expansive force of steam to press on the pistons, or whatever may be used instead of them, in the, same manner as the pressure of the atmosphere is now employed in common fire-engines.
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