Project Gutenberg 2010-12-19 Public domain in the USA. 422 Anonymous Anonyme Anonymous, Anonymous 11026229 Steam Engines Machinery's Reference Series, Number 70 Reading ease score: 68.0 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. 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) "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.) en Steam-engines TJ Text Technology Browsing: Computers & Technology Browsing: Engineering & Construction Browsing: Science - General 151386 151112 2024-10-14T14:22:56.697843 2023-09-15T08:03:13.633083 text/html text/html 146482 2010-12-19T16:57:59 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 2127890 2010-12-19T17:02:18 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 2200668 2024-10-14T14:23:10.135777 application/epub+zip 2201396 2024-10-14T14:23:02.569865 application/epub+zip 113238 2024-10-14T14:22:57.660846 application/epub+zip 1909369 2024-10-14T14:23:13.436776 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1887082 2024-10-14T14:23:05.902793 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 162315 2022-09-16T04:34:54.497921 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 113351 113161 2024-10-14T14:22:55.779873 2023-09-15T08:03:12.925009 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 113013 2010-12-19T16:52:01 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 36539 2010-12-19T16:52:01 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 113020 2010-12-19T16:52:01 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 36529 2010-12-19T16:52:01 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21832 2024-10-14T14:23:13.579754 application/rdf+xml 10242 2024-10-14T14:22:58.502847 image/jpeg 2809 2024-10-14T14:22:58.214931 image/jpeg 2189858 2024-10-14T14:22:56.835892 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog More titles under Unknown en.wikipedia