Steam Engines by Anonymous
Read now or download (free!)
| Choose how to read this book | Url | Size | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Read online (web) | https://sendtokindle.compellingsciencefiction.com/ebooks/34701.html.images | 148 kB | ||||
| EPUB3 (E-readers incl. Send-to-Kindle) | https://sendtokindle.compellingsciencefiction.com/ebooks/34701.epub3.images | 2.1 MB |
Send
to kindle email: |
|||
| EPUB (older E-readers) | https://sendtokindle.compellingsciencefiction.com/ebooks/34701.epub.images | 2.1 MB | ||||
| EPUB (no images, older E-readers) | https://sendtokindle.compellingsciencefiction.com/ebooks/34701.epub.noimages | 111 kB | ||||
| Kindle | https://sendtokindle.compellingsciencefiction.com/ebooks/34701.kf8.images | 1.8 MB | ||||
| older Kindles | https://sendtokindle.compellingsciencefiction.com/ebooks/34701.kindle.images | 1.8 MB | ||||
| Plain Text UTF-8 | https://sendtokindle.compellingsciencefiction.com/ebooks/34701.txt.utf-8 | 111 kB | ||||
| Download HTML (zip) | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/34701/pg34701-h.zip | 2.1 MB | ||||
| There may be more files related to this item. | ||||||
Similar Books
About this eBook
| Author | Anonymous |
|---|---|
| LoC No. | 11026229 |
| Title | Steam Engines |
| Series Title | Machinery's Reference Series, Number 70 |
| Note | Reading ease score: 68.0 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Credits | E-text prepared by Chris Curnow, Harry Lamé, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http: //www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (http: //www.archive.org) |
| Summary | "Steam Engines" by Anonymous is a scientific publication likely written in the early 20th century. This book serves as a comprehensive guide to steam engines, discussing their principles of operation, mechanical details, and efficiency factors. The intended audience appears to include engineers and students of mechanical engineering looking to deepen their understanding of steam engine technology. The content of the book is structured around various aspects of steam engines, covering topics such as the action of steam engines, rating and general proportions, engine details, economy, and types of steam engines. It elaborates on the mechanics of how steam is transformed into work, the importance of efficiency and horsepower calculations, and discusses specific components like valves and governors that are pivotal in engine design. The text details testing methods for determining engine performance and provides practical examples and diagrams to support its instructional purpose, making it a valuable industrial reference for anyone involved in steam engineering. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | TJ: Technology: Mechanical engineering and machinery |
| Subject | Steam-engines |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 34701 |
| Release Date | Dec 19, 2010 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 435 downloads in the last 30 days. |
| Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free! | |
