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 Mechanics; with an Appendix of Patents and Parliamentary Papers Connected with the SubjectJ. Taylor at the Architectural Library, 1822 - 277 pages |
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... raise in one minute a weight equivalent to 3750 pounds one foot high , or about sixty cubic feet of water in the same time ; while the power of a horse working eight hours per day , may be correctly averaged at 20,000 pounds . Smeaton ...
... raise in one minute a weight equivalent to 3750 pounds one foot high , or about sixty cubic feet of water in the same time ; while the power of a horse working eight hours per day , may be correctly averaged at 20,000 pounds . Smeaton ...
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... raising 926 pounds , two hundred and thirty - two feet in a minute ; and of working on an average eight hours per day . This is equivalent to the work of thirty - four meu ; twenty - five square feet of canvas performing the average ...
... raising 926 pounds , two hundred and thirty - two feet in a minute ; and of working on an average eight hours per day . This is equivalent to the work of thirty - four meu ; twenty - five square feet of canvas performing the average ...
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... raise at least twenty thousand cubic feet of water twenty- four feet high ; an engine with a twenty - four- inch ... raise nearly three millions of pounds of water one foot high with a single bushel of coals ; while the best engine on ...
... raise at least twenty thousand cubic feet of water twenty- four feet high ; an engine with a twenty - four- inch ... raise nearly three millions of pounds of water one foot high with a single bushel of coals ; while the best engine on ...
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... useful . In practice it has been ascertained that an engine of six - horse power , will drain more than eight thousand acres , raising the water six feet in height ; while the cost of erection for an engine for this xii INTRODUCTION .
... useful . In practice it has been ascertained that an engine of six - horse power , will drain more than eight thousand acres , raising the water six feet in height ; while the cost of erection for an engine for this xii INTRODUCTION .
Page xiii
... real advantages are seldom duly appreciated ; and this axiom has been fully verified , in the clamour so unjustly raised against the application of the Steam Accidents Engine to nautical purposes . are now , however INTRODUCTION . xili.
... real advantages are seldom duly appreciated ; and this axiom has been fully verified , in the clamour so unjustly raised against the application of the Steam Accidents Engine to nautical purposes . are now , however INTRODUCTION . xili.
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Page 167 - ... by enclosing it in a case of wood, or any other materials that transmit heat slowly; secondly, by surrounding it with steam or other heated bodies...
Page 25 - Committee appointed to inquire how far it may be practicable .to compel persons using Steam Engines and Furnaces in their* different works, to erect them in a manner less prejudicial to public health and public comfort...
Page 53 - Orders of The House, examined the matters to them referred; and have agreed to the following REPORT...
Page 46 - Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the Bankrupt Laws ; and i This and the two preceding motions were lost by large majorities.
Page 9 - 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 feet high.
Page 10 - He showed us his invention of writing, which was very ingenious ; also his wooden kalendar, which instructed him all by feeling ; and other pretty and useful inventions of mills, pumps, &c., and the pump he had erected that serves water to his garden, and to passengers, with an inscription, and brings from a filthy part of the Thames near it a most perfect and pure water.
Page 169 - ... the valves successively to give a circular motion to the wheel; the valves opening in the direction in which the weights are pressed, but not in the contrary. As the...
Page 41 - She had the most terrific appearance from other vessels which were navigating the river when she was making her passage. The first...
Page 98 - That the inspector shall examine such safety-valves, and shall certify what is the pressure at which such safetyvalves shall open, which pressure shall not exceed onethird of that by which the boiler has been proved, nor one-sixth of that which by calculation it shall be reckoned able to sustain : — That a penalty shall be inflicted on any person placing additional weight on either of the safetyvalves. 4. Resolved, That the Chairman be directed to move the House, that leave be given to bring in...