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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... erected lost seven - eighths of its power from friction , and other causes ; while the overshot water - wheel which can act only in favourable situations , produces nearly eight - tenths of the force employed . Now it is stated by Dr ...
... erected lost seven - eighths of its power from friction , and other causes ; while the overshot water - wheel which can act only in favourable situations , produces nearly eight - tenths of the force employed . Now it is stated by Dr ...
Page xii
... 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 .
... 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
... erection for an engine for this species of work , including the pumps , will not exceed seven hundred pounds . This is more than ten windmills can perform , at an annual expenditure of several hundred pounds ; while , in the former case ...
... erection for an engine for this species of work , including the pumps , will not exceed seven hundred pounds . This is more than ten windmills can perform , at an annual expenditure of several hundred pounds ; while , in the former case ...
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... erected that serves water to his garden and to passengers , with an inscription , and brings from a filthy part of the Thames neere it a most perfect and pure water . He had newly buried 2001. worth of music books six feet under ground ...
... erected that serves water to his garden and to passengers , with an inscription , and brings from a filthy part of the Thames neere it a most perfect and pure water . He had newly buried 2001. worth of music books six feet under ground ...
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... erected for the raising of water in gentlemen's pleasure grounds , in different parts of England . Dr. Desaguliers tells us that he made seven of these engines : the first was for the Czar , Peter the Great , for his garden at ...
... erected for the raising of water in gentlemen's pleasure grounds , in different parts of England . Dr. Desaguliers tells us that he made seven of these engines : the first was for the Czar , Peter the Great , for his garden at ...
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acting action admitted air-pump alternately annulus apparatus applied atmospheric engine axis beam boats boiling bottom Boulton and Watt bushel of coals called cast iron cast-iron boilers centre chimney cistern coal cock cold water Committee communication connected considerable construction consumed copper Cornwall crank cylinder diameter effect elastic vapour employed equal erected examined expansive force expense feet fire flue fly-wheel formed fuel furnace furnished gine heat High Holborn high-pressure engine holes Holyhead horizontal hundred improved invention lever London low-pressure engine machine means mercury Messrs metal MICHAEL ANGELO TAYLOR mode moveable navigation passage passing patent pipe piston piston-rod placed plate ployed pounds pressure principle produced pump purpose quantity ratchet-wheels reciprocating engine revolving rotatory motion safety safety-valve sailing Savery's screws side smoke steam engine steam vessel steam-boats steam-pipe steam-tight stroke sufficient supply surface temperature tion tube upper vacuum valve Watt's weight wheel wrought wrought-iron boiler