item: #1 of 5
          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 5
          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: #3 of 5
          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: #4 of 5
          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: #5 of 5
          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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