All About Engines
Forfatter: Edward Cressy
År: 1918
Forlag: Cassell and Company, LTD
Sted: London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne
Sider: 352
UDK: 621 1
With a coloured Frontispiece, and 182 halftone Illustrations and Diagrams.
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Index
Ports, 6, 213
Potential energy, 309
Poundals, 152
Power, definition of, 313 ; measure-
ment of, 307 ; water, 328, 341
Pressure, atmospheric, 26 ; boiler, 95 ;
gauge of, 4 ; high, 46 ; inter-
mediate, 281; low, 146; measur-
ing, 315 ; steam, 4, 58
Priestman’s oil engine, 231 el seq.
Producer gas, 193, 332
Prony brake, 321
Propellers, 222, 223, 276
Propulsion of ships, 296, 301, 305
Pump, 26, 137, 250; air, 41, 43, 137,
180, 285, 286; centrifugal, 142,
305 ; dry air, 286 ; dual, 285, 286;
feed, 100, 287; explosion, 202;
general utility, 283; oil, 163;
valveless oil, 136; Watt’s, 137;
wet air, 286
Q
Quadruple expansion engine, 146
Quick-revolution engine, 135
R
R. A. F. engine, 229
“ Racing,” 282
Radiators, 210, 218, 306
Rateau’s turbine, 158
Reaction turbine, the, 148, 164 et seq.
Reciprocating engines, 105 et seq, 279,
302
Reducing turbines, 176 ; valves, 96
Refrigerating plant, 306
Regulating, feed-water, 90 et seq.
Reims aviation meeting, 225
Reversing gear, Howe’s, 257
Rings, packing, 107, 121
“ Rocket,” the, 256, 257
Rod, connecting, 8, 241
Roebuck, Dr., 42
Rolls-Royce engine, 229
Rope brake, 322
Rotary engine, 274, 277 ; motion, 148 ;
pump, 180 ; valves, 213
Rotor, turbine, 173, 294
Rowland, Prof. H. A., 311
Royal Commissions on Coal, 329
Rumford, Count, 309
S
Safety plug, 83
Safety, provision for, in boilers, 79 et
seq.
Safety valve, 3, 29 ; dead weight, 81 ;
lever, 81 ; spring, 83 ; water float,
82 {see also Valves)
“ Sanspareil,” the, 256
"Santa Fé,” the, 270
Saturation, 145
Savery, Captain, engine of, 29
Screws, ships’, 276, 294
Semi-Diesel engine, the, 249 et seq.
Sensible heat, 310
i Separator, steam, 96
। Shaft of marine engine, 280
I Shale oil, 338
I Ships, engines for, 245 et seq., 273 et
seq., 302 ; propulsion of, 296, 301,
305 ; turbines for, 293 et seq., 300
Side-beam engine, 277
Single-cylinder engine, in, 220
Single-ended boiler, 283
“Single engines,” 269
“ Single,” Stirling’s, 259
“ Six-coupled engines,” 270
Slide valve, 13
Smoke box, locomotive, 265 et seq.
Spark arrester, 265
Sparking plug, 211, 218
Speed, “critical,” 156; regulation of
122 et seq.
Stays, gusset, 59 ; longitudinal, 59
Steam carriage, Cugnot’s, 253
Steam chart, 6
Steam, condensation of, 32, 40; con-
trol of, 13 ; dry, 92 et seq. ; exhaust,
88, 145, 303 ; expansion of, 15, 50,
143 ; latent heat of, 310 ; loss of,
291 ; passages, or “ ports,” 6