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Calvin F. Swingle · 1905 · Scanned text · Free in the US

137,188 words · about 9 h 36 min to read

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Author
Calvin F. Swingle
Language
English
Published
1905
Length
137,188 words · about 9 h 36 min
Sections
42 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain in the United States

 

Contents (42)

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Front matter

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PART I STEAM ENGINEERING American Thompson indicator

176.

Amsler's polar planimeter, 263.

Ashcroft steam gauge, 36.

Baragwanath closed heater, 53.

Baragwanath open heater, 55.

Babcock and Wilcox water tube boiler, 16.

Berryman closed heater, 57.

Baragwanath siphon condenser, 272.

Coffin averager or planimeter,

261.

Crosby indicator, sectional view,

170.

Crosby indicator, with reducing

wheel, 183.

Cross compound Allis-Chalmers

engine, 266.

Center oiler for crank pin, 279.

Davis belt-driven feed pump, 48.

Differential valve for Davis

pump, 47-49.

Detroit lubricator, 277.

Green's fuel economizerconstruction, 94.

-under

Hamilton Corliss engine— cro

compound, 268.

Horizontal boiler setting, 12.

Heine water tube boiler, 14.

Hot water thermometer, 59.

Inside view of pop valve, 41 „

Knowles jet condenser, 269.

Lahman shaking grate, 67.

Martin rocking grate, 68.

Marsh steam pump, 50.

Metropolitan injector, 52.

McClave shaking grate, 33-35.

Pop safety valve, 40.

Pickering governor, 276.

Penberthy injector — sectional view, 285.

Schaefer and Budenberg steam

gauge, 38.

Sectional view of pressure gauge,

37.

Sectional view of Corliss cylinder

and valve chests, 158.

Shaft governor, 281.

Tandem compound Buckeye

engine, 267.

U. S. Automatic injector, 51.

Wickes vertical water tube

boiler, 13.

Worthington duplex feed pump,

49.

Worthington surface condenser,

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