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Steam

Author: Babcock & Wilcox Company
Published: 1902
book: 131 pages
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Subject: Technology & Engineering

1 STZAn U5C^,/ J rn.gPX ECONOMY AND SAFETY IN STEAM GENERATION. ECONOMY IN THE USE OF COAL is a In fact, a large number of the boilers in use at matter of ...

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Steam, its generation and use

Author: Babcock & Wilcox Company
Published: 1906
book: 130 pages
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Publisher: null
Subject: Technology & Engineering

ECONOMY AND SAFETY IN STEAM GENERATION. ECONOMY IN THE USE OF COAL is a In fact, a large number of the boilers in use ai matter of great and growing ...

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A history of the growth of the steam-engine

Author: Robert Henry Thurston
Published: 1903
book: 530 pages
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Subject: Transportation

THE GROWTH OF THE STEAM-ENGINE. CHAPTER I. THE STEAM-ENGINE AS A SIMPLE MACHINE. Section I. — The Period of Speculation — from Hero to Worcester, ...

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Heat engines

Author: John Robins Allen
Published: 1914
book: 320 pages
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Publisher: null
Subject: Science

Heat being the source of energy for the devices considered in this book, a short discussion of the nature and the more important properties of heat will ...

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Treatise on the steam engine

Author: James Renwick
Published: 1839
book: 327 pages
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Subject: Technology & Engineering

... TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF THESTEAM ENGINE. Division of Material substances. — Forces which determine the state in which they exist. ...

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Treatise on the steam engine

Author: null
Published: 1848
book: 327 pages
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Subject: Steam-engines

TREATISE, &c. CHAPTER I. MECHANICAL AND PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES THAT ARE APPLICABLE TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE STEAM ENGINE. Division of Material substances. ...

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Popular lectures on science and art

Author: Dionysius Lardner
Published: 1852
book: book
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Subject: Science

MATTER & ITS PHYSICAL PROPERTIES, Divisibility, — Unlimited Divisibility. — Wollaston's Micrometric Wh;e. — Method of making it. ...

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A manual of the steam engine and other prime movers

Author: William John Macquorn Rankine
Published: 1866
book: 575 pages
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Publisher: null
Subject: Power (Mechanics)

The Action of a machine is to produce Motion against Resistance. For example, if the machine is one for lifting solid bodies, such as a crane, ...

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The steam engine

Author: George Charles Vincent Holmes
Published: 1897
book: 528 pages
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Publisher: null
Subject: History

The elementary conception of a stenm engine— The essential elements of steam engines — Description of a simple form of modern steam engine and boiler ...

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History and progress of the steam engine

Author: Elijah Galloway
Published: 1836
book: 863 pages
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Publisher: null
Subject: Steam-engines

HISTORY AND PROGRESS OF THE STEAM ENGINE; & practical inbefttigation STRUCTURE AND APPLICATION. BY ELIJAH GALLOWAY, CIVIL ENGINEER. TO WHICH IS ADDED, ...

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A manual of the steam engine

Author: William John Macquorn Rankine
Published: 1882
book: 592 pages
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Subject: Power (Mechanics)

INTRODUCTION. OF MACHINES IN GENERAL. Section. — Of Resistance and Work.. The Anion of a machine is to produce Motion against Resistance. ...

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Lives of Boulton and Watt

Author: Samuel Smiles
Published: 1865
book: 521 pages
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Subject: Steam-engines

CHAPTER I. Dawnings of Steam Poweb — The Marquis of Worcester. When Matthew Boulton entered into partnership with James Watt, he gave up the ormolu business ...

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A treatise on the steam engine

Author: John Farey
Published: 1827
book: 728 pages
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Publisher: null
Subject: Technology & Engineering

Entrotmcttom The Steam-engine is a compound machine which exerts a moving force, and is the primum mobile or first moving power to give motion to other ...

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The steam-engine and other heat-engines

Author: Sir James Alfred Ewing
Published: 1906
book: 456 pages
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Publisher: null
Subject: History

- CHAPTER L THE EAKL.Y HISTORY OF THE STEAM-ENGINE.. Heat-Engines in general. In the scientific treatment of the steam-engine we have in the first place, ...

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Steam power plant auxiliaries and accessories

Author: Terrell Croft
Published: 1922
book: 447 pages
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Publisher: null
Subject: Technology & Engineering

STEAM POWER PLANT AUXILIARIES AND ACCESSORIES DIVISION PUMP CALCULATIONS. The Height To Which Water May Be Drawn By Pump- Suction depends principally: ...

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Exposition et histoire des principales découvertes scientifiques modernes ...

Author: Louis Figuier
Published: 1855
book: book
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Publisher: null
Subject: Steam-engines

DES PRINCIPALES DECOUVERTES SCIENTIFIQUES MODERNES. LA MACHINE A VAPEUR. CHAPITRE PREMIER. Notions concernant la vapeur dans l'antiquité et le moyen âge. ...

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Watt's perfect engine

Author: Ben Marsden
Published: 2002
book: 213 pages
ISBN:0231131720
ISBN:9780231131728
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Subject: Biography & Autobiography

Discusses James Watt's development of the separate condenser steam engine, a key step in making steam a practical industrial power source and the creation of ...

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An early experiment in industrial organisation

Author: Baron Eric Roll Roll of Ipsden
Published: 1968
book: 320 pages
ISBN:0714613576
ISBN:9780714613574
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Business & Economics

First published in 1930.

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A system of mechanical philosophy

Author: Sir David Brewster
Published: 1822
book: 50 pages
ISBN:0714613576
ISBN:9780714613574
Publisher: null
Subject: Mechanics

... of MOvING FORCES ; that is, whatever necessarily results from, the relations of our ideas of motion, and of the immediate causes of its production and ...

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The origin and progress of the mechanical inventions of James Watt

Author: James Watt
Published: 1854
book: book
ISBN:0714613576
ISBN:9780714613574
Publisher: Murray
Subject: Biography & Autobiography

LETTERS PATENT, AND SPECIFICATIONS OF PATENTS. LETTERS PATENT, DATED JANUARY 5TH ,, FOR A METHOD OF LESSENING THE CONSUMPTION OF STEAM AND FUEL IN FIRE ...

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