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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: duced by the stroke of the piston buck and forth. The invention consists in connecting the piston-rod and crank of an engine by means of a system of toggles and connecting-rods, applied and arranged in a peculiar manner, whereby the above objects are accomplished, and an engine possessing superior qualities for driving the screw-propeller is obtained. ERICSSON'S CALORIC ENGINE. The applicability of Ericsson's caloric engines for all but a very few of the thousand uses for which power is required, has within the past few years been sufficiently demonstrated, and the introduction and use of them is no longer a matter of experiment. More than five hundred of these engines ? varying in dimensions of cylinder from 6 to 32 inches ? are now in successful operation in diffrent parts of the country. Many of these are employed as domestic motors in pumping water. A large number, chiefly 18-inch cylinders, are performing a similar office at railway stations. Mr. Vibbard, the General Superintendent of the New York Central Railroad, after having had five of these engines in use at water-stations for several months, reports officially, over his signature as superintendent, that they perform an incredible amount of labor for the small quantity of fuel consumed. One of them, at the Jordan station, he says, performs the labor of four men, at an expense of -ffa of one cent per hour; and one at the Savana station does the labor of five men, at a cost of eleven cents per day, making a saving of over $120 per month. We have decided, he says, to use the engines at nil stations where we are compelled to supply locomotives by pumping. An engine of the same size at the Newmarket station, on the New Jersey Central Railroad, raises thirty-three thousand gallons of water at the cost of les...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217336666
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 236
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217336663
  • Publisher Date: 05 May 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 426 gr


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