Text-book on the Steam EngineC. Lockwood and Company, 1880 - 296 Seiten |
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adiabatic adiabatic curve angle apparatus Architect atmosphere beam boiler Boyle's law centre circular cloth boards coal compound cylinder compressed condenser connecting rod constant construction crank Crown 8vo cylinder engine D. K. CLARK drawing eccentric Edition enclosed enlarged exhaust expansion feet friction furnace gases heat engine HENRY LAW inches in diameter indicator diagram iron latent heat length lever locomotive engine marine engines mechanical mercury motion numerous Illustrations passing patent pipe piston rod Plates portion Practical principle pump rods quantity of heat Railway RALPH TATE refer regenerator represents revised revolutions per minute rise rotation Rudimentary Treatise SCOTT BURN shaft side sketch slide valve space square inch steam engine steam pressure stroke substance supply surface surface condensation Tables temperature theory Timber tion tube vapour velocity vertical vessel volume Watt Watt's weight wheel whereby Woodcuts
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Seite 9 - Physical Geology, " which sets forth the Leading Principles of the Science; and "Historical Geology, " which treats of the Mineral and Organic Conditions of the Earth at each successive epoch, especial reference being made to the British Series of Rocks. By RALPH TATE.
Seite 29 - Edition, is. 49. Derivative Spelling-Book: Giving the Origin of Every Word from the Greek, Latin, Saxon, German, Teutonic, Dutch, French, Spanish, and other Languages ; with their present Acceptation and Pronunciation. By J. ROWBOTHAM, FRAS Improved Edition, is. 6d.
Seite 51 - Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produces in us that sensation from whence we denominate the object hot ; so what in our sensation, is heat, in the object is nothing but motion.
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Seite 3 - The chief merit of the work is its practical character. . . . The workers in the trade will speedily discover its merits when they sit down to study it.