The Limitations of the Expansion of Steam : Forming the Sixteenth Chapter of the Relative Proportions of the Steam-Engine (Classic Reprint)

William Dennis Marks

ISBN 10: 0483786772 / ISBN 13: 9780483786776

Published by Forgotten Books, 2018

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Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

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• Title: The Limitations of the Expansion of Steam : Forming the Sixteenth Chapter of the Relative Proportions of the Steam-Engine (Classic Reprint)
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0483786772
• ISBN 13: 9780483786776
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Hervorragend
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Excerpt from The Limitations of the Expansion of Steam: Forming the Sixteenth Chapter of the Relative Proportions of the Steam-Engine

The condensation of steam by the walls of the steam cylinder is a fact whose existence has been repeatedly proved by many distinguished experimenters.

Probably Watt and a long line of followers knew that great expansions meant greater proportional losses through condensation.

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