A Popular 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; and on Steam Navigation; with an Appendix of Patents and Parliamentary Papers Connected with that SubjectJ. Weale, 1836 - 330 pages |
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... consuming Furnaces APPENDIX . ( A ) 142 List of Patents for the Steam Engine , with an Analytical Ac- count of those more immediately connected with its Im- provement and general Application to the useful Arts 183 ( B ) Evidence given ...
... consuming Furnaces APPENDIX . ( A ) 142 List of Patents for the Steam Engine , with an Analytical Ac- count of those more immediately connected with its Im- provement and general Application to the useful Arts 183 ( B ) Evidence given ...
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... consumed , another begins to force and refill with reign . " This was published in a small quarto volume of only twenty- two pages , and consists of little more than an enumeration of the won- derful properties of the above engine ; and ...
... consumed , another begins to force and refill with reign . " This was published in a small quarto volume of only twenty- two pages , and consists of little more than an enumeration of the won- derful properties of the above engine ; and ...
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... consumes the oxygen , and rarefies the nitrogen by the increase of temperature which ensues . The vacuum thus produced is much more perfect than would at first view have been sup- posed , from the nature of the process resorted to by ...
... consumes the oxygen , and rarefies the nitrogen by the increase of temperature which ensues . The vacuum thus produced is much more perfect than would at first view have been sup- posed , from the nature of the process resorted to by ...
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... consume about thirty - one pounds of coal per minute . In 1797 , the ingenious Mr. Cartwright , well known for the ... consumes ; or the power and fuel would be as three to one , calling their relation in ordinary steam one to one . A ...
... consume about thirty - one pounds of coal per minute . In 1797 , the ingenious Mr. Cartwright , well known for the ... consumes ; or the power and fuel would be as three to one , calling their relation in ordinary steam one to one . A ...
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... under no Government regulations . — It was sup- posed that a rotatory engine consumed less coals than one with a reciprocating beam . Twelve bushels of coals , with the rotatory motion , would perform the same work as STEAM NAVIGATION . 69.
... under no Government regulations . — It was sup- posed that a rotatory engine consumed less coals than one with a reciprocating beam . Twelve bushels of coals , with the rotatory motion , would perform the same work as STEAM NAVIGATION . 69.
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Page 289 - Orders of The House, examined the matters to them referred; and have agreed to the following REPORT...
Page iii - Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd Steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; Or, on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air...
Page 322 - A Description and Draught of a new-invented Machine, for carrying Vessels or Ships out of, or into, any Harbour, Port, or River, against Wind and Tide, or in a calm.
Page 187 - Sixthly, I intend in some cases to apply a degree of cold not capable of reducing the steam to water, but of contracting it considerably, so that the engines shall be worked by the alternate expansion and contraction of the steam. — Lastly, Instead of using water to render the piston or other parts of the engines air and steam-tight, I employ oils, wax, resinous bodies, fat of animals, quicksilver, and other metals, in their fluid state.
Page 102 - Resolved, That the Chairman be directed to move the House, that leave be given to bring in a Bill for enforcing such regulations as may be...
Page 34 - Fourthly, I intend, in many cases, to employ the expansive force of steam to press on the pistons, or whatever may be used instead of them, in the, same manner as the pressure of the atmosphere is now employed in common fire-engines.
Page 8 - ... hours it burst, and made a great crack ; 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...
Page 8 - An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire, not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be as the philosopher calleth it, infra spheeram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder, if the vessels be strong enough ; for I have taken a piece of a whole cannon, whereof the end was burst, and filled it...
Page 321 - ... the breadth, the remainder shall be esteemed the just length of the keel to find the tonnage ; and the breadth shall be taken from the outside of the outside plank in the broadest place in the ship, be it either above or below the main wales...
Page 186 - I intend, in many cases, to employ the expansive force of steam to press on the pistons, or whatever may be used instead of them, in the same manner in which the pressure of the atmosphere is now employed in common fire engines.