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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 edition. Excerpt: ...carriages, which has excited so much attention that we cannot omit some notice of it. The power of this new engine is gained by burning gas in a cylinder, so as to rarefy its contents in a very considerable degree; it is then cooled, and the difference between the pressure of the atmosphere and the elasticity of the air in the cylinder, constitutes the moving power. It has been attempted to show that the power results from the products of the combustion being condensed into less bulk than the combustibles occupied before, but this solution is inadequate to explain the effect produced. The principle of its action may be easily illustrated by a simple experiment. Let a piece of paper, which inflames readily, be burnt under an inverted glass so as to fill its capacity with flame, and then immediately immerse the mouth of the glass in water. The consequence is, that the hot air or flame is condensed by the water, and shrinks into a space of about one-third of the capacity of the glass, while the water rises and fills it till the contained air be of the same elasticity as the atmosphere. Mr. Brown, the inventor of the gas machine, produces a similar effect by burning gas in a metallic cylinder, and by means of the flame of gas, and an apparatus which is very ingenious, renders this wellknown phenomenon a means of obtaining a considerable quantity of mechanical power. Whether this power be likely to be useful for loco-motive carriages or not, we now will proceed to examine. To ascertain the degree of rarefaction (or of vacuum) in the cylinder, let x = the temperature of the flame, the Original temperature of the air in the cy 450-f-x linder being 50 degrees. Then fiQQ-= the bulk of the expanded air; and when the pressure of the...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781151437921
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 44
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151437921
  • Publisher Date: 05 May 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 95 gr


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