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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... Select Committee of the House of Commons on Steam Navigation CHAPTER V. 71 Cylinder and Piston - Condenser - Air - pump - Barometer and Steam - Gauge - Working Beam - Parallel Motion- Counter - Sun and Planet Wheel - Fly and other.
... Select Committee of the House of Commons on Steam Navigation CHAPTER V. 71 Cylinder and Piston - Condenser - Air - pump - Barometer and Steam - Gauge - Working Beam - Parallel Motion- Counter - Sun and Planet Wheel - Fly and other.
Page xvi
... Wheel - Fly and other Modes of regulating Velocity - Boiler - Safety - valves - Furnace CHAPTER VI . 123 Savery's Engine improved by Pontifex - Atmospheric Engine -Single - acting Engine , by Boulton and Watt- Murray and Wood's Engine ...
... Wheel - Fly and other Modes of regulating Velocity - Boiler - Safety - valves - Furnace CHAPTER VI . 123 Savery's Engine improved by Pontifex - Atmospheric Engine -Single - acting Engine , by Boulton and Watt- Murray and Wood's Engine ...
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... fly - wheel to the purpose of turning mills . It was first described by Mr. Hulls , who , in 1736 , had a patent for an engine to be employed in the impelling of vessels . It was not , however , generally used till 1770 , about which ...
... fly - wheel to the purpose of turning mills . It was first described by Mr. Hulls , who , in 1736 , had a patent for an engine to be employed in the impelling of vessels . It was not , however , generally used till 1770 , about which ...
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... fly - wheel . The fire wheel of M. Amontons , and the steam wheel of his countryman Deslandes , were very ingenious , though both of them much too intricate for general use . The first of these inventions consisted of a number of ...
... fly - wheel . The fire wheel of M. Amontons , and the steam wheel of his countryman Deslandes , were very ingenious , though both of them much too intricate for general use . The first of these inventions consisted of a number of ...
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... fly - wheel of considerable weight to equalise its motion . To prevent this loss of power , a variety of contrivances have been suggested , for the pur- pose of producing a continuous action , without the intervention of a cylinder and ...
... fly - wheel of considerable weight to equalise its motion . To prevent this loss of power , a variety of contrivances have been suggested , for the pur- pose of producing a continuous action , without the intervention of a cylinder and ...
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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