Practical Instruction for Young Engineers and Steam Users.
Cleaning the boiler, removing scale, scale preventers, oil in boilers, braces and stays, mud drums and feed pipes, boiler fittings, grate bars and tubes, bridge walls, the slide valve, throttling engine, the piston, testing the slide valve with relation to the ports, defects of the slide valve, lap and lead, the pressure on a slide valve, stem connections to the valve, valves off their seats, valve stem guides, governors, running with the sun, eccentrics and connections, the crank pin, brass boxes, bearings on pins, adjustment of bearings, the valve and gearing, setting eccentrics, the actual operation, return crank motion, pounding, the connections, lining up engines, making joints, condensing engines, Torricelli's vacuum, proof of atmospheric pressure, pumps, no power in a vacuum, supporting a water column by the atmosphere, starting a new plant, the highest qualities demanded.
Water tube boilers, fire tube boilers, why water tube boilers steam rapidly, torpedo boat boilers, management of water tube boilers, economy and maintenance of water tube boilers.
150 pages, illustrated, 16mo, cloth, $1.00
A first class American Book for young Engineers and all those wishing to take a higher position.
1. Elementary Thermodynamics. 2. Theory of the Steam Engine. 3, Types and details of Engines. 4. Admission of Steam by Valve. 5. Valve diagrams. 6. Indicator and indicator cards. 7. Compound Engines and condensers. 8. Heat and combustion of fuel. 9. Boilers, types, fittings, etc. 10. Chimneys. APPENDIX. Care of Boilers, Tables, Numerous Problems with answers.
Third edition, (1901), thoroughly revised to date and considerably enlarged.
259 pages, 108 illustrations, size 9¼ × 6¼.
II. The Eccentric a Crank. Special Model to Give Quantitative Results.
IV. Dead Centre. Order of Cranks. Cushioning and Lead.
V. Expansion—Inside and Outside Lap and Lead; Advance Affected Thereby. Compression.
VII. The Effect of Alterations to Valve and Eccentric.
IX. Note on Very Early Cut-Off, and on Reversing Gears in General.
_88 Pages._ _41 Illustrations._ _12mo, Cloth, $1.00._
A SIMPLE EXPLANATION OF THE THEORY AND USE OF THE SLIDE RULE, LOGARITHMS, ETC.