 NEWCOMEN'S engine, with a wooden cylinder six inches diameter, and twelve inches long in the stroke. 6th, I had measured the quantity of cold water required in every stroke to condense the steam in that cylinder, so as to give it a working power of about...  The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal - Page 51820Full view - About this book
 | John Robison - 1822 - 766 pages
...that of boiling water, and an approximation to the law which it followed at other temperatures. 5lh, How much water, in the form of steam, was required...quantity in the form of steam, and applied to Dr BLACK, as is related in the short history, p. 116, Note, and then first understood what was called Latent... | |
 | John Robison - 1822 - 766 pages
...temperatures. 5l/i, How much water, in the form of steam, was required every stroke by a small NEWCOMBN'S engine, with a wooden cylinder six inches diameter,...quantity in the form of steam, and applied to Dr BLACK, as is related in the short history, p. 116, Note, and then first understood what was called Latent... | |
 | John Robison, James Watt - 1822 - 768 pages
...temperatures. 5th, How much water, in the form of steam, was required every stroke by a small NKWCOMEN'S engine, with a wooden cylinder six inches diameter,...cylinder, so as to give it a working power of about 7 lb. on the inch. Here I was at a loss to understand how so much cold water could be heated so much... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1840 - 576 pages
...small Newcomen's engine, with a wooden cylinder six inches diameter, and twelve inches stroke. " Sixth, the quantity of cold water required in every stroke...cylinder, so as to give it a working power of about 7 lb. on the inch. " Here I was at a loss to understand how so much cold water could be heated so much... | |
 | James Patrick Muirhead - 1858 - 656 pages
...quired every stroke by a small Newcomen's engine, with a " wooden cylinder 6 inches diameter, and 12 inches long in " the stroke. " 6th. I had measured...cylinder, so " as to give it a working power of about 7 Ibs. on the inch. " Here I was at a loss to understand how so much cold " water could be heated so... | |
 | James Patrick Muirhead - 1859 - 652 pages
...quired every stroke by a small Newcomen's engine, with a " wooden cylinder 6 inches diameter, and 12 inches long in " the stroke. " 6th. I had measured...cylinder, so " as to give it a working power of about 7 Ibs. on the inch. " Here I was at a loss to understand how so much cold " water could be heated so... | |
 | James Patrick Muirhead - 1859 - 440 pages
...every stroke to condense the steam in that cylinder, so as to give it a working power of about 7 Ibs. on the inch. " Here I was at a loss to understand...much by so small a quantity in the form of steam, and [I] applied to Dr. Black, as is related in the short history, p. 116, note; and then first understood... | |
 | Robert Henry Thurston - 1891 - 912 pages
...cylinder six inches in diameter and twelve inches stroke. (6) The quantity of cold water required, at every stroke, to condense the steam in that cylinder, so as to give it a working power of about seven pounds on the square inch. After these well-devised and truly scientific investigations, Watt... | |
 | Gaetano Lanza - 1895 - 174 pages
...stroke by a small Newcomen engine, with a wooden cylinder 6 inches in diameter and 12 inches stroke. (6) The quantity of cold water required in every stroke...cylinder, so as to give it a working power of about seven pounds on the square inch. These researches showed him what were the difficulties, and cleared... | |
 | 1878 - 804 pages
...cylinder six inches in diameter and twelve inches stroke. (6.) The quantity of cold water required, at every stroke, to condense the steam in that cylinder, so as to give it a working power of about seven pounds on the square inch. 34. After these well-devised and truly scientific investigation!!,... | |
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