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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... prise, and that his was one of those rare minds in which was realised that uncommon combination of talent. It now becomes necessary to point out somewhat more in detail the nature of the improvements which Mr. Elder, by himself, or with the co-operation of his firm, carried out in marine engineering; and as the most important of these were connected with the second and third factors of efficiency already mentioned--that of the steam in its action on the piston, and that of the mechanism--the circumstances on which that second factor depends will, in the first place, be explained. The expenditure of energy in the form of heat required in order to produce a given weight of steam, when the water is supplied to the boiler at a given temperature, increases when the pressure and temperature of the steam increase, but at a comparatively slow rate. For example, the expenditure of heat required to produce a given weight of steam at the pressure of ten atmospheres (about 147 lb. on the square inch of absolute pressure, or 132.3 lb. on the square inch above the atmosphere), the feed-water being at the temperature of about 100 Fahrenheit, is greater than that required to produce an equal weight at the atmospheric pressure, in the proportion only of 1.04 to 1, or 26 to 25 nearly. Hence the problem of obtaining the greatest possible quantity of indicated work from a given expenditure of heat in producing steam is so nearly identical with that of obtaining the greatest possible quantity of work from a given weight of steam, that in practice the difference between those two problems may be neglected. All mechanical work is done by the exertion of a force through a space, and is calculated and expressed as a quantity by multiplying the mean amount of the force...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781154573503
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 18
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1154573508
  • Publisher Date: 05 Jul 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 54 gr


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