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Explains how new metalworking ideas could boost strength, reliability, and efficiency.
This volume gathers Charles William Siemens’s scientific papers and the ensuing discussions, offering practical insight into iron, steel, and steam-age innovations. Readers will see how careful control of temperature, cooling, and material composition can affect performance in engines, forging, and machinery.
In these pages you’ll find thoughtful analysis of puddling furnaces, mild versus hard steel, and the role of silicon and carbon in cast and wrought iron. The material covers both theory and hands-on practice, including fuel choices, gas economy, and the interplay between industrial design and metallurgical science.- Foundations of steel-making and the impact of temperature, oxidation, and alloying elements on ductility and strength.
- Practical discussions on puddling furnaces, gas utilization, and open‑hearth processes.
- Comparisons of engines, including steam, air, and regenerative concepts, with attention to efficiency and wear.
- How real-world tests and measurements inform safer, more durable machinery components.
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Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book is a record of the experiments conducted by the author to confirm Regnault's disproof of Watt's law on the relation of latent and sensible heat in steam, to prove the rate of expansion by heat of isolated steam, and to illustrate the immediate practical results of these experiments in working steam engines expansively. This book serves as an important record of historical experiments that shaped our understanding of steam. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Seller Inventory # 9781330659014_0
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