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CHARLES GRIFFIN & GO.’S PUBLIC’A TIONS.
In Handsome Cloth. With 252 Illustrations. 15s. net.
THE THEORY 0F THE STEAM TURBINE.
A Treatise on the Principles of Construction of the Stearn Turbine,
with Historical Notes on its Development.
By ALEXANDER JUDE.
Contents.—Fundamental.— Historical Notes on Turbines. —The Velocity of Stearn.—
Types of Steam Turbines. —Practical Turbines.—The Efficiency of Turbines, Type I.—
Trajectory of the Steam. —Efficiency of Turbines, Types II., III. and IV.—Turbine Vanes.—
Disc and Vane Friction in Turbines.—Specific Heat of Superheated Steam.—Strength
of Rotating Discs.—Governing Steam Turbines.—Steam Consumption of Turbines.—The
Whirling ofShafts.— Speed of Turbines.—Index.
“One of the latest text-books . . . also one of the best . . . there is absolutely
no padding.”—Sir Villiam White in the Times Engineering Supplement.
In Large Crown 8vo. Handsome Cloth. With 131 Illustrations. 6s. net.
LECTURES ON THE MARINE STEAM TURBINE.
By Prop. J. HARVARD BILES, M.Inst.N.A.,
Professor of Naval Architecture in the University of Glasgow.
“ This is the best popular work on the marine steam turbine which has yet appeared."—
Steamship.
Works by BRYAN DONKIN, M.Inst.C.E., M.Inst.Meeh.E., &e.
Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged. With additional Illustrations.
Large 8vo, Handsome Cloth. 25s. net.
A TREATISE ON
GAS, OIL, AND AIR ENGINES.
By BRYAN DONKIN, M.Inst.C.E., M.Inst.Mech.E.
Contents.—Part I.—Gas Engines : General Description of Action and Parts. —
Heat Cycles and Classification of Gas Engines.—History of the Gas Engine.—The
Atkinson, Griffin, and Stockport Engines. —The Otto Gas Engine. —Modern British Gas
Engines.—Modern French Gas Engines.—German Gas Engines. —Gas Production for
Motive Power.—Utilisation of Blast-furnace and Coke-oven Gases for Power.—The Theory
of the Gas Engine.—Chemical Composition of Gas in an Engine Cylinder.—Utilisation of
Heat in a Gas Engine.—Explosion and Combustion in a Gas Engine.—Part II.—
Petroleum Engines: The Discovery, Utilisation, and Properties of Oil.—Method of
Treating Oil.—Carburators.—Early Oil Engines.—Practical Application of Gas and Oil
Engines. —Part III.—Air Engines.—Apphndicbs.—Index.
“The best book now published on Gas, Oil, and Air Engines.”—Engineer.
In Quarto, Handsome Cloth. With Numerous Plates. 25s.
THE HEAT EFFICIENCY 0F STEAM BOILERS
(LAND, MARINE, AND LOCOMOTIVE).
By BRYAN DONKIN, M.Inst.C.E.
General Contents. —Classification of Different Types of Boilers.—425 Experiments on
English and Foreign Boilers with their Heat Efficiencies shown in Fifty Tables.—Fire
Grates of Various Types.—Mechanical Stokers.—Combustion of Fuel in Boilers.—Trans-
mission of Heat through Boiler Plates, and their Temperature.—Feed Water Heaters,
Superheaters, Feed Pumps, &c. —Smoke and its Prevention. —Instruments used in Testing
Boilers.—Marine and Locomotive Boilers.—Fuel Testing Stations.—Discussion of the Trials
and Conclusions. — On the Choice of a Boiler, and Testing of Land, Marine, and Locomotive
Boilers. —Appendices.—Bibliography. —Index.
“ Probably the most exhaustive resumé that has ever been collected. A practical
Book by a th'oroughly practical man.”—Iron and Coal Trades Review.
LONDON: CHARLES GRIFFIN & CO.. LIMITED, EXETER STREET, STRAND,