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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... ployed ; and this too at a comparatively moderate expense . We find , farther , that an hundred weight of coals burned in an engine on the old construction , would raise at least twenty thousand cubic feet of water twenty- four feet ...
... ployed ; and this too at a comparatively moderate expense . We find , farther , that an hundred weight of coals burned in an engine on the old construction , would raise at least twenty thousand cubic feet of water twenty- four feet ...
Page 18
... ployed . Mr. Henry Beighton , who was engaged as an agent in this concern , not approving of the intricate manner of opening and shutting the cocks , for the admission of steam , water , & c . which were then moved by strings and ...
... ployed . Mr. Henry Beighton , who was engaged as an agent in this concern , not approving of the intricate manner of opening and shutting the cocks , for the admission of steam , water , & c . which were then moved by strings and ...
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... ployed to form the vacuum . Having discovered that the great waste of calo- ric in the old engine , arose from the alternate heating and cooling the cylinder , by the admis- sion and subsequent condensation of the heated steam , Mr ...
... ployed to form the vacuum . Having discovered that the great waste of calo- ric in the old engine , arose from the alternate heating and cooling the cylinder , by the admis- sion and subsequent condensation of the heated steam , Mr ...
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... ployed ; and this was speedily superseded by a rod connected with the working beam , by means of a parallel motion . The Expansion Engine was also invented by Mr. Watt , and though not generally employed until 1778 , appears from a ...
... ployed ; and this was speedily superseded by a rod connected with the working beam , by means of a parallel motion . The Expansion Engine was also invented by Mr. Watt , and though not generally employed until 1778 , appears from a ...
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... ployed it for draining foundations and other tem- porary works . It had a pulley , or wheel , to receive the chain which communicated motion from the piston to the pump - rod , instead of a beam . The pivots of the wheel were supported ...
... ployed it for draining foundations and other tem- porary works . It had a pulley , or wheel , to receive the chain which communicated motion from the piston to the pump - rod , instead of a beam . The pivots of the wheel were supported ...
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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 cast iron cast-iron boilers centre chimney cistern coal cock cold water communication condenser 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-pressure engine holes Holyhead horizontal improved inch 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 raised ratchet-wheel reciprocating engine revolving rotatory motion safety-valve sailing Savery's screws shaft side smoke square steam engine steam vessel steam-boats steam-pipe steam-tight stroke sufficient supply surface THOMAS TREDGOLD tion tube upper vacuum valve Watt's weight wheel wrought wrought-iron boiler