Modern Engines and Power Generators, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint): A Practical Work on Prime Movers and the Transmission of Power, Steam, Electric, Water and Hot Air - Couverture souple

Rankin Kennedy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330124065 ISBN 13 : 9781330124062

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore compact, high-speed marine engines with practical design details and real-world performance notes.

This volume surveys fluid-upon-fluid propulsion ideas and the Hult rotary engines, explaining how multiple shutters manage steam admission, expansion, and exhaust. It also covers lubrication, bearings, and the arrangements that support fast, reliable operation at sea.

• Learn how two- and three-shutter configurations handle steam inlets, expansion, and exhaust for smooth rotation.
• Understand the role of the governor and rotary admissions in keeping precise timing with the piston.
• See how rolling bearings reduce friction and how automatic lubrication supports high-speed use.
• Get a sense of how jet and propeller ideas compare in early marine propulsion discussions.

Ideal for readers of historical engineering methods, this edition helps you grasp the practical mechanics behind early rotary engines and ship propulsion concepts.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from Modern Engines and Power Generators, Vol. 1: A Practical Work on Prime Movers and the Transmission of Power, Steam, Electric, Water and Hot Air

The term Modern Engines applies not only to engines of modern design, or invented in recent years, but also to all engines found to serve useful and efficient purposes at this date. Many old devices and designs have survived, and are worthy of a place when presented in their more modern developments.

The most highly developed machinery cannot in every case be employed by the engineer. In many instances rough and ready methods arc necessary, and efficiency is sacrificed for the sake of convenience and simplicity. Me has often to make use of what materials can be most readily found in his neighbourhood, and while a triple expansion steam engine and a multitubular boiler would be highly appreciated and very economical as a prime mover, such an outfit would be in many cases impossible where less complicated and more primitive machinery would be quite successful. References are therefore made to older types still in practical use.

Each Volume of this work will contain some special feature. This First Volume discusses the fluid pressure machines operated by fluid impulse, by air, water, and steam flowing under a difference of pressure. These include that most important prime mover, the steam turbine, which therefore forms the special feature of Volume I. Being a new subject, and of great interests involved, the prior patents covering the fundamental inventions have been briefly noticed, as well as all the more recent inventions worthy of notice on this subject.

The application of the steam turbine to marine propulsion will be further discussed later on in this work under "Marine Engines."

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330124065
• ISBN 13: 9781330124062
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
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