item: #1 of 27
          id: 10998
      author: Bourne, John, C. E.
       title: A Catechism of the Steam Engine
        date: None
       words: 147260
      flesch: 68
     summary: For some years past a new edition of this work has been called for, but I was unwilling to allow a new edition to go forth with all the original faults of the work upon its head, and I have been too much engaged in the practical construction of steam ships and steam engines to find time for the thorough revision which I knew the work required. The first part of Chapter XI, devoted in the English edition to English portable and fixed agricultural engines, in this edition gives place entirely to illustrations from American practice, of steam engines as applied to different purposes, and of appliances and machines necessary to them.
    keywords: a._--the; air; air pump; area; boiler; box; case; centre; crank; cylinder; diameter; end; engine power; engines; feet; fig; fire; force; heat; horse power; inches; inches diameter; iron; lbs; length; locomotive; means; motion; paddle; piston; piston rod; power; pressure; pressure engines; pressure steam; pump; q._--what; resistance; rod; screw; screw engines; shaft; speed; square; steam; steam engine; steam pipe; steam valve; steam vessels; stroke; surface; times; tubes; valve; velocity; water; wheels
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        item: #2 of 27
          id: 11164
      author: Maggard, James H.
       title: Rough and Tumble Engineering
        date: None
       words: 38349
      flesch: 79
     summary: Engine oil however should be but little lower in quality than the cylinder oil, owing to the proximity of the bearings to the boiler, they are at all times more or less heated, and require a much heavier oil than a journal subject only to the heat of its own friction. This is only necessary as a matter of economy, cylinder or valve oil will do very well on the engine, but engine oil will not do for the cylinder.
    keywords: boiler; cylinder; engine; engineer; fire; gauge; good; pounds; pressure; pump; run; steam; time; use; valve; water; way; work
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        item: #3 of 27
          id: 17783
      author: Traveling Engineers' Association
       title: The Traveling Engineers' Association to Improve the Locomotive Engine Service of American Railroads Examination Questions and Answers for Firemen for Promotion and New Men for Employment
        date: None
       words: 58331
      flesch: 80
     summary: If the main crank pin was broken? A. Take down eccentric rod, eccentric crank, main rod and all connecting rods, block cross-head, disconnect from end of radius rod, chain it to running board and block steam valve to cover ports. Why should you not use valve oil in these bearings? A. Valve oil cannot be used successfully in the main bearing because of its heavy body.
    keywords: a. steam; a. valve; air; air brake; brake cylinder; brake pipe; brake valve; control valve; end; engine; exhaust valve; feed valve; fire; pipe pressure; piston valve; position; pressure; pressure air; pressure cylinder; pressure piston; reservoir; rod; slide valve; steam cylinder; steam pressure; steam valve; valve oil; valve pipe; water
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        item: #4 of 27
          id: 19133
      author: Gregory, Charles Hutton
       title: Practical Rules for the Management of a Locomotive Engine in the Station, on the Road, and in cases of Accident
        date: None
       words: 6464
      flesch: 55
     summary: The water is higher when the Engine is running than when stopping: a good working height for it in most Engines is when _water_ blows off from the middle cock while running, and _water and steam_ when stopping: an Engine-man is sometimes obliged to run the water rather lower, if he has heavy work; but it is always better to keep the level of the water as high as possible. One pump, if constantly at work, would, in most Engines, supply as much, or rather more water than is required by the Engine as equivalent to the steam consumed; so that by turning on or off either or both pumps, the Engine-man has the power of regulating the height of the water in the boiler at discretion.
    keywords: engine; fire; man; steam; time; train; water
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        item: #5 of 27
          id: 22245
      author: Bassett, Sara Ware
       title: Steve and the Steam Engine
        date: None
       words: 60409
      flesch: 80
     summary: I am glad of that, Mr. Ackerman replied, for I should deeply regret placing either you or your boy, even for a moment, in an uncomfortable position, or one where it might appear that I-- But Mr. Tolman cut him short. You are very kind, murmured Mr. Tolman vaguely, but I-- Help me to persuade your father to be generous, Stephen, interposed Mr. Ackerman.
    keywords: ackerman; boy; car; country; dad; day; days; dick; doris; engine; england; eyes; face; fact; father; good; great; hand; lad; locomotive; men; mind; money; mrs; new; people; place; pocketbook; railroad; right; room; ships; sir; son; steam; steamboat; stephen; steve; story; tell; things; think; thought; time; tolman; train; way; world; york
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        item: #6 of 27
          id: 22657
      author: Babcock & Wilcox Company
       title: Steam, Its Generation and Use
        date: None
       words: 154528
      flesch: 63
     summary: | ature | Super | of | Table 54 gives the ratio of barometric readings of various altitudes to sea level, values for the square of this ratio and values of the two-fifths power of this ratio. TABLE 54 STACK CAPACITIES, CORRECTION FACTORS FOR ALTITUDES _______________________________________________________________________ | | | | | | | Altitude | | R | | R^{2/5} | | Height in Feet | Normal | Ratio Barometer | | Ratio Increase | | Above | Barometer |
    keywords: = =; air |; anthracite|hand |; authority |; bed |; c |; capacity |; carbonate |; carpenter |; cent |; clearfield |; co. |; coal |; creek |; dioxide |; f. |; foot |; fuel |; furnace |; heat |; hill |; inch |; inches |; iowa |; lehigh |; level |; lump |; matter |; monoxide |; ohio |; oil |; pittsburgh |; point |; pounds |; power |; pressure |; s.| |; size |; slack |; square |; steam boiler; steam |; sulphate |; superheat |; total |; valley |; vein |; water |; weight |; wyoming |; | +; | ala; | ash; | b.; | boiler; | cambria; | carbon; | corrosion; | degrees; | difference; | draft; | e; | fahrenheit; | feed; | feet; | flue; | gas; | george; | horse; | hydrogen; | h|; | ind; | jefferson; | jones; | kind; | ky; | lord; | magnesium; | medium; | methane; | moisture; | morgan; | n; | number; | nut; | o; | pa; | proximate; | r; | sawdust; | screenings; | sea; | state; | sulphur; | temperature; | tex; | t|; | u.; | va; | volume; | w.; | |; | |________|_________|_______|_______|_______|_______|_______|_______|; | |______|_______|_______|_______|_______|_______|_______|_______|; | |______|______|_____|______|_______|_______|______|_______|______|; | |california; | |fahren-|; | |texas; | ||; |---|-------|--------|-----|-----|-----|----|-----|----|----|-----|-----| |; |________|_________|_______|_______|_______|_______|_______|_______| |; |_______|_________________________________________________|_____________| |; |______|_______|_______|_______|_______|_______|_______|_______| |; |______|______|_____|______|_______|_______|______|_______|______| |; || |
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        item: #7 of 27
          id: 27286
      author: Runciman, Walter C.
       title: Gas and Oil Engines, Simply Explained An Elementary Instruction Book for Amateurs and Engine Attendants
        date: None
       words: 14880
      flesch: 69
     summary: The latter is a very desirable feature in any type of gas engine, but especially in the larger sizes; for at any future time, should it be found necessary to re-bore the liner, it can be removed with comparative ease, and is, moreover, more readily dealt with in the lathe than the whole cylinder casting would be. The settings of the valve being of primary importance, no matter what size engine we are dealing with, and being also the most confusing matter for anyone unacquainted with gas engines to grasp, it will not be out of place to suggest a simple method of checking these settings.
    keywords: air; cam; cylinder; end; engine; exhaust; fig; gas; gas engine; gas valve; illustration; position; stroke; tube; valve
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        item: #8 of 27
          id: 27687
      author: Collins, Hubert E. (Hubert Edwin)
       title: Steam Turbines A Book of Instruction for the Adjustment and Operation of the Principal Types of this Class of Prime Movers
        date: None
       words: 34300
      flesch: 61
     summary: It is seldom, however, that turbines are made in large sizes for directly driving anything but electrical plants, although there is every possibility of direct mechanical driving between large steam turbines and plants of various descriptions, shortly coming into vogue, so that usually there exist some facilities for obtaining an electrical load at both the maker's works and upon the site of operation. Instead of meeting this condition with the best apparatus possible, a chain of difficulties were added to it, with the results given. INDEX Acceleration, rate of, 147 Adjustment, axial, 65 making, 66 Air-pump, examining, 163 Allis-Chalmers Co. steam turbine, 41 Auxiliaries, 2, 154 special, 165 Auxiliary plant for consumption test, 137 spring on governor dome, 28 Axial adjustment, 65 Baffler, 36 functions, 39 Bearings, main, 69 Blades, construction details, 44 inspecting, 104 Blading, Allis-Chalmers turbine, 48 Westinghouse-Parsons turbine, 59, 92 Blueprints, studying, 11 Buckets, moving, 14 stationary, 14 Bushings, 36 Carbon packing, 19 ring, 20 Central gravity oiling system, 111 Circulating pump fails to meet guarantee, 172 Clearance, 15, 150 adjusting, 18 between moving and stationary buckets, 4 gages, 17 measuring, 18 radial, 63 Comma lashing, 95 Condensers, 108, 131 jet, 154 Conditions for successful operation, 105 Cooling water supply limited, 177 Coupling, 127 Cover-plate, 4 -plate, lowering, 9 Curtis turbine, 11 turbine in practice, 1 setting valves, 31, 32 De Laval turbines, 118 Draining system, 105 Dummy leakage, 115 pistons, 63, 65 rings, 43, 113, 114 Equalizing pipes, 64 Exhaust end of turbine, 107 pipe, 107 Expanding nozzles, 14 Feed-pipes, 164 Flow, rate, 38 Foundation drawings, 2 rings, 44, 46 Fourth-stage wheel, 14 Franklin, Thomas, 112, 137, 154 Gages, calibrating and adjusting, 169 clearance, 17 for test work, 165 Generator, 53 Glands, examination for scale, 104 packing, 71, 77 regulation, 148 Governor, Allis-Chalmers turbine, 48 Curtis turbine, 27, 31 improved, Westinghouse-Parsons turbine, 83 -rods, adjusting, 35 safety-stop, 86 Westinghouse-Parsons turbine, 80 Grinding, 38 Guide-bearing, lower, 9 Gump, Walter B., 172 Holly draining system, 106 Horseshoe shim, 8 Hot-well regulation, 148 Inspection, 103 Intermediate, 14 Jacking ring, 8 Jet condenser, 154 Johnson, Fred L., 1, 31 Leakage, 118 Load variation, 144 Lower guide-bearing, 9 Lubrication, 51 Measuring tanks, 171 Mechanical valve-gear, 32 Nozzles, expanding, 14 Oil, 57, 103, 109 amount passing through bearings, 122 consumption, high, 175 detecting water in, 122 pressure, 122 -temperature curve, 123 Oil, testing, 110 velocity of flow, 122 Oiling, 87 system, importance, 119 Operation, Allis-Chalmers turbine, 54, 55 successful, 105 Operations in handling turbine plant, 146 Overload valve, 28 Packing, carbon, 19 glands, 71 ring, self-centering, 14 Parsons type of turbine, 41 Passage in foundation, 2 Peep-holes, 15, 18 Piping, 171 changing, 179 inspection, 164 Pressure, 63 gages, 166 in glands, 57 Pump, circulating, fails to meet guarantee, 172 inspection, 164 Radial clearance, 63 Rateau turbines, 118 Relief valves, 31 valves, importance, 159 Ring, carbon, 20 Rotor, Westinghouse-Parsons turbine, 59 Running, 99 Safety-stop, 22 -stop governor, 86 Saucer steps, 39 Screw, step-bearing, 18 step-supporting, 4 Separators, 105 Setting spindle and cylinder for minimum leakage, 115 valves in Curtis turbine, 31, 32 Shaft, holding up while removing support, 8 Shield-plate, 26, 36 Shim, horseshoe, 8 Shroud rings, 44, 46 Shrouding on buckets and intermediates, 18 Shutting down, 101 Special turbine features, 127 Spindle, lifting, 96 removing, 104 Spraying mechanism, 158 Stage valves, 28, 31 Starting up, 54, 95 Step-bearing, lowering to examine, 8 -bearing screw, 18 -blocks, 4 -lubricant, 4 -pressure, 38 -supporting screw, 4 -water, flow, 38 Stopping turbine, 56 Sub-base, 8 Superheated steam, 105 Test loads, 141 necessary features, 163 Testing oil, 110 preparing turbine for, 145 steam turbine, 112, 137, 152 Thermometer, calibrating and testing, 169 oil, 125 Thrust-block, 118 Top block, 4 Troubles with steam turbine auxiliaries, 172 Turbine features, special, 127 Vacuum, 152 raising, 107 test, 135 Valve-gear, 83 -gear, mechanical, 22, 32 operation during consumption test, 138 overload, 28 relief, 31 importance, 159 setting in Curtis turbine, 31, 32 stage, 28,31 Vapor bound pumps, 178 Water, cooling, limited, 177 in oil, detecting, 122 -measurement readings, 148 pressure, 101 service, 126 importance, 119 tests of condenser, 133 used in glands, 57, 76 Westinghouse-Parsons steam turbine, 58 Wheels, 14 lower or fourth-stage, 14 position, 18
    keywords: bearing; blades; case; condenser; end; fig; governor; illustration; load; machine; oil; operation; pipe; pressure; pump; running; shaft; speed; spindle; steam; steam turbine; test; time; turbine; vacuum; valve; water
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        item: #9 of 27
          id: 28160
      author: White, John H.
       title: The 'Pioneer': Light Passenger Locomotive of 1851 United States Bulletin 240, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, paper 42, 1964
        date: None
       words: 10093
      flesch: 67
     summary: Pioneer_ cost $6,200 in gold, but is unable to give the source for this information. Pioneer_
    keywords: boiler; cumberland; engine; figure; frame; illustration; iron; locomotive; museum; pioneer; railroad; smith; steam; valley; valve; wheel; wilmarth
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        item: #10 of 27
          id: 28166
      author: Anonymous
       title: Installation and Operation Instructions For Custom Mark III CP Series Oil Fired Unit
        date: None
       words: 2391
      flesch: 74
     summary: +---------------------------------------------+ | | | NOTE | | The Minimum limit setting for any hot water | | boiler should be 140 degrees F. in order to | | prevent corrosion of the flues on the fire | | side.
    keywords: burner; carton; flue; oil; unit; | |
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        item: #11 of 27
          id: 32677
      author: Cooper, Grace Rogers
       title: The Invention of the Sewing Machine
        date: None
       words: 55237
      flesch: 70
     summary: Story of sewing machine patents. Machine sewing reduced the cost of constructing the garment by about eighty percent, thereby decreasing its price and increasing its popularity.
    keywords: american; chainstitch machine; charles; clark; cloth; co. |; family machine; figure; george; hand; howe machine; howe sewing; illustration; james; john; later; loop; machine co.; machine combination; machine company; machine news; machine patent; machine times; machines; manufacture; manufacturing; model; needle; new; number; patent sewing; patents; photo; sewing machine; sewing thread; shuttle; singer; smithsonian; smithsonian photo; states; stitching; thread; thread machine; vol; william; wilson; work; years; york; | |; |april; |aug; |dec; |feb; |jan; |july; |june; |march; |may; |nov; |oct
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        item: #12 of 27
          id: 34030
      author: Jones, Franklin Day
       title: Turning and Boring A specialized treatise for machinists, students in the industrial and engineering schools, and apprentices, on turning and boring methods, including modern practice with engine lathes, turret lathes, vertical and horizontal boring machines
        date: None
       words: 87940
      flesch: 73
     summary: When a cut is being taken, the table and work rotate as shown by arrow _a_, and the thrust of the cut (taken by tool _t_) tends to move the wheel backward against the direction of rotation, as shown by arrow _b_. Turning tools for copper are ground with a little more top rake than is given steel turning tools, and the point should be slightly rounded.
    keywords: angle; bar; boring; center; cutter; cutting; diameter; end; feed; fig; finishing; hole; illustration; inch; lathe; lathe work; machine; operation; position; screw; set; slide; spindle; surface; taper; thread tool; threads; tool; turning; turning tool; turret; turret lathe; work; | |
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        item: #13 of 27
          id: 34701
      author: Anonymous
       title: Steam Engines
        date: None
       words: 15900
      flesch: 72
     summary: CHAPTER V TYPES OF STEAM ENGINES There are various ways of classifying steam engines according to their construction, the most common, perhaps, being according to speed. The practical application of the above, together with the method of obtaining steam engine indicator diagrams and measuring the areas of the same, will be taken up in detail under the heading of Steam Engine Testing.
    keywords: cylinder; engine; fig; piston; pounds; pressure; steam; steam engine; stroke; valve; | |
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        item: #14 of 27
          id: 35916
      author: Thurston, Robert Henry
       title: A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine
        date: None
       words: 144755
      flesch: 64
     summary: Nothing was, however, done on a larger scale by either Watt or Murdoch, who both found more than enough to claim their attention in the construction and introduction of other engines. The condenser, _M_, and air-pump, _Q_, were constructed in the same manner as those of other engines, their only peculiarities being such as were incident to their location between the cylinder, _A_, and the crank, _I J_.
    keywords: air; application; beam; boat; boiler; coal; compound engine; condensation; condenser; construction; cylinder; cylinder engine; diameter; driving; end; energy; engine; engineer; expansion; experiments; feet; fig; form; gear; good; heat; horse; hour; illustration; inches; introduction; iron; line; little; locomotive; london; machine; machinery; making; method; miles; motion; new; newcomen engine; paddle; pipe; piston; place; point; pounds; power; pressure; pressure steam; pump; road; rod; savery engine; science; screw; set; small; speed; square; states; steam; steam fire; stephenson; stevens; stroke; surface; temperature; time; tons; united; use; valve; vessel; water; watt; watt engine; weight; wheels; work; working; years; york; | |
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        item: #15 of 27
          id: 38415
      author: Mathot, Rodolphe Edgard
       title: Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants A Practice Treatise Setting Forth the Principles of Gas-Engines and Producer Design, the Selection and Installation of an Engine, Conditions of Perfect Operation, Producer-Gas Engines and Their Possibilities, the Care of Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants, with a Chapter on Volatile Hydrocarbon and Oil Engines
        date: None
       words: 61831
      flesch: 60
     summary: | | | | Special articles each month relative to the design, | | construction, and operation of gas engines for all | | classes of service. [A] Recent improvements made in suction gas-producers will probably lead to the wide introduction of producer gas engines even for small power.
    keywords: air; apparatus; care; case; cent; coal; cock; compression; consumption; cylinder; engine; exhaust; explosion; fig; fuel; gas; gas engine; generator; horse; ignition; illustration; means; mixture; oil; operation; order; parts; pipe; piston; power; pressure; pressure gas; producer; speed; steam; suction; suction gas; temperature; tube; type; valve; water; | |
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        item: #16 of 27
          id: 39033
      author: Low, David Allan
       title: An Introduction to Machine Drawing and Design
        date: None
       words: 27232
      flesch: 84
     summary: | 5/8 | 2 | |2 | flange is | 5/16 | 3/4 | 2 | |2-1/2| made of cast | 5/16 | 7/8 | 2 | |3 | iron and | 3/8 | 1 | 2 | |3-1/2| _t__{2}=_t__{1} | 3/8 | 1 | 2 | |4 | when gland | 7/16 | 1 | 2 | |4-1/2| flange is | 7/16 | 7/8 | 4 | |5 | made of | 7/16 | 1 | 4 | |6 | brass. +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | Diameter of Screw | 1/8 | 1/4 | 3/8 | 1/2 | 5/8 | 3/4 | 1 | +-------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+------ | Number of threads | | | | | | | | | per inch | 28 | 19 | 19 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 11 | +-------------------------------------------------------------+ +-------------------------------------------------+ | Diameter of Screw | 1-1/4 | 1-1/2 | 1-3/4 | 2 | +-------------------+-------+-------+-------+-----+ | Number of threads | | | | | | per inch | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | +-------------------------------------------------+ _Representation of Screws._--The correct method of representing screw threads involves considerable trouble, and is seldom adopted by engineers for working drawings.
    keywords: bolt; box; cast; crank; diameter; drawing; elevation; end; exercise; fig; form; half; illustration; inches; iron; key; piston; rod; scale; section; shaft; valve; views; | +; | t; | |
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        item: #17 of 27
          id: 39329
      author: Baldwin Locomotive Works
       title: Illustrated Catalogue of Locomotives; Baldwin Locomotive Works
        date: None
       words: 31057
      flesch: 73
     summary: Other engines of the same pattern, but with eighteen and one-half inch cylinders, were built in 1862-63, for the same company, and for the Don Pedro II. Railway of Brazil. Subsequently, on other engines on which the spark-box was not used, the half-saddles were cast so as almost to meet under the smoke-box, and, after the cylinders were adjusted in position, wedges were fitted in the interstices and the saddles bolted together.
    keywords: baldwin; base; c |; class; cylinders; diameter; drivers; driving; engine; feet; inches; iron; locomotive; pounds; railroad; stroke; tender; tons; truck; weight; wheels; | |
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        item: #18 of 27
          id: 42369
      author: Zerbe, James Slough
       title: Motors
        date: None
       words: 46092
      flesch: 73
     summary: Atmospheric Engines.--When we examine them it is difficult to see how we can designate them as steam engines. Rotary Engines.--Many attempts have been made to produce a rotary type of steam engine, and also to adapt it for use as an internal combustion motor.
    keywords: air; boiler; cam; coil; contact; crank; current; cylinder; direction; end; energy; engine; fig; force; form; gas; gasoline; heat; illustration; means; motion; motor; movement; piston; point; position; pounds; power; pressure; shaft; steam; steam engine; time; tube; type; valve; water; wheel; wire
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        item: #19 of 27
          id: 43375
      author: Unknown
       title: Measuring Tools
        date: None
       words: 15477
      flesch: 74
     summary: We shall therefore in the following chapters deal principally with special measuring tools, and with such methods in the use of tools which are likely to suggest improvements, or otherwise be valuable to the user and maker of measuring tools. Improved Micrometer Beam Caliper] In a beam caliper having a sliding micrometer jaw with or without a separate clamping slide, it is necessary to have the beam divided into unit spaces, at which the jaw or slide may be accurately fixed, the micrometer screw then being used to cover the distance between the divisions; but it is difficult to construct a beam caliper of this type with holes for a taper setting pin, at exactly equal distances apart; consequently a plan that is generally followed in making such tools is to provide as many holes through the slide and beam as there are inch divisions, each hole being drilled and reamed through both the slide and beam at once.
    keywords: caliper; end; fig; gage; illustration; inch; inside; length; line; measuring; micrometer; screw; standard; tool; work
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        item: #20 of 27
          id: 44604
      author: Doughty, Frank W.
       title: How to Become an Engineer
        date: None
       words: 19424
      flesch: 84
     summary: Here are a few dates: Watt's invention of the separate condenser, 1765; Watt's first patent, 1769; Watt's first working engine introduced into a manufactory, 1775; first steam engine erected in Ireland, 1791; first steamboat run on the Hudson, 1797; first steamboat abroad, 1801. Read them with care: With good engineers an awkward fireman soon changes his habits and appearance--he gets the knots dressed off of him, as it were.
    keywords: boiler; box; brass; cut; end; engine; engineer; fig; fire; good; half; hand; hole; illustration; inch; inches; locomotive; model; piece; plate; steam; time; water; work
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        item: #21 of 27
          id: 45932
      author: Slauson, Harold Whiting
       title: The Gasoline Motor
        date: None
       words: 33045
      flesch: 58
     summary: Brass or bronze bearings may be used at the big end of the connecting rods, but the large majority of motor car engines are provided with babbitted bearings at these points. The two-cycle motor has been used in several notable instances with great success on motor cars, but by far the larger majority of automobile power plants are of the four-cycle type.
    keywords: air; bearing; case; charge; crank; crank shaft; current; cycle motor; cylinder; gasoline; gasoline motor; motor; oil; piston; rod; shaft; stroke; type; valve; valve motor; water
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        item: #22 of 27
          id: 46634
      author: Trevithick, Francis
       title: Life of Richard Trevithick, with an Account of His Inventions. Volume 2 (of 2)
        date: None
       words: 137727
      flesch: 66
     summary: Ill health, 1830--Hot-house boiler--Heating rooms--Discharging coal-ships by steam--Hot-water stoves for France--Patent for heating apparatus, 1831--Marine portable engines--Boat propeller--Wheal Towan--Discharging coal by steam at Hayle--Proposal to the Common Council of London--Every vessel to carry a steam-engine--Mr. George Rennie--Proposal to the Admiralty--Surface condensation--Locomotives supplying their own feed-water--Petition in Trevithick's favour--Davies Gilbert's suggestion--His comparison of the Watt and Trevithick engines--Maudslay on Trevithick's proposals--Patent of 1832--Superheating steam--Cylinder placed in flue from boiler--Expansive steam--Tubular boiler--Water propulsion--Superheating and surface condensation for locomotives--Detail of engine--Proposal to send steamboats to Buenos Ayres--Waterwitch Company--Messrs. Hall and Sons--Hall's condenser--Rennie and the Admiralty--'Syria' steamboat--Compound engines--Watt on high-pressure steam--Trevithick on compound engines--Tubular boiler and variable blast-pipe--Refusal of Trevithick's petition to Government--Ill health--Davies Gilbert's statement to Spring Rice--Meeting on proposed Reform Column--Trevithick's description--Means of ascent and descent--Placed before the King--Death--Funeral--His last letter Page 363-396 ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOLUME II. PAGE AËRATED STEAM-BOILER 7 ROCK SPLITTING 25 STEAM THRASHING ENGINE 37 AGRICULTURAL MACHINE 58 WHEAL PROSPER HIGH-PRESSURE STEAM POLE-ENGINE 70 CYLINDRICAL HIGH-PRESSURE STEAM-BOILERS 71 EXPANSIVE STEAM POLE-ENGINE 81 CARN BREA CASTLE 147 TREVITHICK'S DOLCOATH ENGINE OF 1816 168 TREVITHICK'S DOLCOATH BOILERS OF 1811 169 STEAM DIAGRAM 185 'LA BELLE MACHINE' 190 CARRIAGE-WHEELS 207 WINDING ENGINES 208 PENZANCE IN OLDEN TIME 228 MARKET, JEW STREET, PENZANCE 243 MULE TRACK FROM LIMA TO CERRO DE PASCO 258 MAP OF COSTA RICA MINES Uville, who had heard of the wonderful ability of English engineers to construct steam pumping engines, was utterly downhearted at this decision of the great Soho engineers, and while dejectedly wandering through the streets of London, unconsciously gazed into the shop window of Mr. Roland in Fitzroy Square, near the spot on which Trevithick had run his railway locomotive three years before.[120] Rumour of passed events may have led him to visit the ground on which had worked a new kind of steam-engine.
    keywords: air; boiler; boulton; captain; captain trevithick; case; coal; condenser; cornwall; cost; cylinder; cylinder engine; day; diameter; dolcoath; dolcoath engine; double; duty; engine; feet; fire; footnote; half; heat; high; inch; inch cylinder; inch engine; inches; iron; lbs; letter; lima; london; making; man; millions; mines; minute; new; patent; piston; place; pole; power; pressure engine; pressure steam; pumping engine; purpose; said; sides; sir; steam; steam vacuum; stroke; surface; time; tons; trevithick; trevithick engine; tube; use; uville; vacuum engine; valve; vessel; vol; water; watt engine; way; wheal; work; working; years
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        item: #23 of 27
          id: 47187
      author: Hermann, Edward Adolph
       title: Steam Shovels and Steam Shovel Work
        date: None
       words: 19144
      flesch: 74
     summary: Capacity Working Shipping Swinging of Post order, order, Radius, angle, dipper, W'ht, Fig. material. Total No. cars loaded 2,899 8,631 2,771 5,254 2,528 Greatest No. load.
    keywords: cars; cut; dipper; fig; gravel; illustration; iron; loading; machine; material; plow; shovel; steam; steam shovel; track; work
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        item: #24 of 27
          id: 47762
      author: Marten, Edward Bindon
       title: Records of Steam Boiler Explosions
        date: None
       words: 52299
      flesch: 84
     summary: 38 to show the effect of wear and tear of boiler plate in an ordinary upright furnace boiler, such as is shown in Fig. All must be agreed as to the importance of reliable information on such accidents as boiler explosions; and the writer would suggest that this Institution may materially aid in obtaining the desired records and placing them within easy access, by becoming the depository of reports on explosions, and by inducing those who have the opportunity to forward copies of reports, that these may be arranged so as to be easily found and consulted.
    keywords: = =; boiler; cause; cornish; corrosion; diameter; end; explosion; fig; fire; illustration; inch; inch plates; lbs; plates; pressure; rent; shell; steam; tube; water; years; | |; || |
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        item: #25 of 27
          id: 55428
      author: Lardner, Dionysius
       title: The Steam Engine Familiarly Explained and Illustrated With an historical sketch of its invention and progressive improvement; its applications to navigation and railways; with plain axioms for railway speculators
        date: None
       words: 109208
      flesch: 60
     summary: Experiments with boats on, 209, Comparison of with railroads, 210 Cartwright, Rev. Mr., description of his improvements in the steam engine, 142 Cawley, John, 61 Century of Inventions by the Marquis of Worcester, 46 Chapman, Messrs., obtain a patent for working a locomotive by means of a chain, 162 Church, Dr., his steam carriage, 239 Cohesion, attraction of, 32 Condensation of solids, 28 Condensation by jet, accidental discovery of, 65 Cornwall, reports of duty of steam engines in, 303 Cotton, processes in the culture of, 18 Cylinder, its proportions, 300 D. D valve, description of the, 113 Damper, the, 126 Duty of a steam engine, 291 Duty, reports of, in Cornwall, 303 E. Eccentric; description of the, 111 Edelcrantz, the Chevalier, 127 F. Farey, Mr., his statement respecting the variations in the work of different steam engines, 133 Fluids, property of, 21 Fly-wheel, introduction of the, 104 Four-way cock, description of the, 115 Fuel, table of the consumption of, in different locomotives, 180 G. Governor, description of the, 105 Guericke, Otto, inventor of the air-pump, 70 Gurney, Mr., his steam carriage, 216 H. Hackworth, Mr., description of his engine, the Sanspareil, 173 Hall, Mr. Samuel, his patent steam engine, 248. The physical effects most intimately connected with the operations of steam engines are some of the mechanical properties of atmospheric air.
    keywords: air; atmospheric; boiler; condenser; cylinder; effect; end; engines; feet; fig; fire; foot; force; fuel; heat; horse; level; miles; motion; piston; power; pressure; pressure engine; proportion; quantity; rod; speed; steam carriages; steam engine; steam navigation; steam power; steam pressure; steam valve; surface; temperature; time; tube; vacuum; vessel; water; watt; weight; wheel; work; working
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        item: #26 of 27
          id: 56332
      author: Moore, Bloomfield H., Mrs.
       title: Keely and His Discoveries: Aerial Navigation
        date: None
       words: 141357
      flesch: 52
     summary: The invention of vibratory machinery for the liberation and the operation in mechanics of sympathetic force is an instance where practical application of the discovery may be made by the discoverer. In the vibratory subdivision of matter, as progressive evolution has been analyzed, it is evident that these transfers of sympathetic force extend beyond the limits of our orbital range, from system to system, throughout the realms of space: these progressive systems becoming themselves, after a certain range of sympathetic motion, sympathetic intermediates, as included in the whole of one system, exemplified so beautifully in the cerebral convolutions, with their connective sympathy for each other; transferring as a whole on the focalizing centre, from which it radiates to all parts of the physical organism, controlling in all its intricate variety the sympathetic action, of our movements.
    keywords: action; age; atomic; centre; chord; company; conditions; control; day; discoveries; discovery; earth; electricity; energy; engine; etheric; existence; experiments; fact; field; flow; force; form; god; human; infinite; keely; knowledge; latent; law; laws; life; light; long; magnetic; man; mass; material; matter; medium; men; mind; molecular; molecules; motion; motor; nature; negative; new; order; perfect; philosophy; physical; power; present; professor; progress; researches; science; set; sympathetic; system; theories; theory; things; thought; time; truth; universe; unknown; vibration; vibratory; water; way; work; world; years
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        item: #27 of 27
          id: 60819
      author: Lukin, James
       title: The Lathe & Its Uses Or, Instruction in the Art of Turning Wood and Metal. Including a Description of the Most Modern Appliances for the Ornamentation of Plane and Curved Surfaces. With an Appendix, in Which is Described an Entirely Novel Form of Lathe for Eccentric and Rose Engine Turning; a Lathe and Planing Machine Combined; and Other Valuable Matter Relating to the Art.
        date: None
       words: 110641
      flesch: 71
     summary: The form of tool given as the best for slide rest work may be exchanged, when the bar is nearly turned, to the required size, for a fresh one, keen, sharp, and of an almost flat edge instead of point. In order to obviate the difficulty of following the diametrical line with the cutting tool, the following contrivance has been suggested to the author by one who has followed lathe work as a profession for many years, and is an adept at the art.
    keywords: angle; apparatus; bed; brass; centre; chuck; cut; cutter; cutting; eccentric; edge; end; face; fig; form; frame; hand; illustration; iron; lathe; line; mandrel; means; metal; motion; pattern; piece; plate; point; position; pulley; rest; round; screw; size; slide; slide rest; surface; tool; turning; use; wheel; wood; work
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