A Short Treatise on the Compound Steam Engine: With a New Method of Finding the Relative Areas of the Two Cylinders (Classic Reprint)

Jr., John Turnbull

ISBN 10: 1528321863 / ISBN 13: 9781528321860

Published by Forgotten Books, 2019

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• Title: A Short Treatise on the Compound Steam Engine: With a New Method of Finding the Relative Areas of the Two Cylinders (Classic Reprint)
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1528321863
• ISBN 13: 9781528321860
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Excerpt from A Short Treatise on the Compound Steam Engine: With a New Method of Finding the Relative Areas of the Two Cylinders

As the compound engine is being now so universally adopted in the Mercantile Ma rine Service, and a knowledge of its princi ples absolutely necessary by those engaged in attending it, we will, in the following remarks, explain these principles m as sim ple a manner as possible, and institute a comparison between the respective merits of the single-cylinder expansive condens ing engine and the compound engine.

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