The Steam Engine Explained and Illustrated: With an Account of Its Invention and Progressive Improvement, and Its Application to Navigation and Railways; Including Also a Memoir of WattTaylor and Walton, 1840 - 535 pages |
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admitted air-pump already described amount applied ascend atmospheric engine atmospheric pressure attached axle beam boiler boiling bottom Boulton and Watt carriage centre chimney cistern closed coals cock cold water combustion communication condenser connecting rod constructed contrivance crank cubic cylinder descending diameter diminished driving elastic equal evaporation expansion experiments feet filled fire fire-box flues fly-wheel force fuel furnace greater heat HERO OF ALEXANDRIA imparted improved increased invention James Watt lever load locomotive engines machine magnitude means mechanical effect mercury method miles motion moving power necessary opened parallel motion passage passing pipe piston piston-rod placed plate position pounds pressed principle produced propelling proportion pump quantity of water railway raised rendered represented in fig resistance Samuel Morland screws slide space speed square inch steam engine stroke sufficient sun wheel supply suppose surface temperature thermometer throttle-valve tube upwards vacuum valve vapour velocity vertical vessel Watt weight wheels