CHAPTER XII.—Foundations continued; Materials for same, etc.
Third Edition, with an Appendix.
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HOW TO RUN
Engines and Boilers
Practical Instruction for Young Engineers and Steam Users.
_BY EGBERT POMEROY WATSON_
REVISED AND ENLARGED
Synopsis of Contents
Cleaning the boiler, removing scale, scale preventers, oil in boilers, braces and stays, mud drums and feed pipes, boiler fittings, grate bars and tubes, bridge walls, the slide valve, throttling engine, the piston, testing the slide valve with relation to the ports, defects of the slide valve, lap and lead, the pressure on a slide valve, stem connections to the valve, valves off their seats, valve stem guides, governors, running with the sun, eccentrics and connections, the crank pin, brass boxes, bearings on pins, adjustment of bearings, the valve and gearing, setting eccentrics, the actual operation, return crank motion, pounding, the connections, lining up engines, making joints, condensing engines, Torricelli's vacuum, proof of atmospheric pressure, pumps, no power in a vacuum, supporting a water column by the atmosphere, starting a new plant, the highest qualities demanded.
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THE SLIDE VALVE
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BY W. J. TENNANT, Asso. M.I.M.E.
REVISED AND MUCH ENLARGED
BY J. H. KINEALY, D.E.
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I. The Simple Slide.
II. The Eccentric a Crank. Special Model to Give Quantitative Results.
III. Advance of the Eccentric.
IV. Dead Centre. Order of Cranks. Cushioning and Lead.
V. Expansion—Inside and Outside Lap and Lead; Advance Affected Thereby. Compression.
VI. Double-Ported and Piston Valves.
VII. The Effect of Alterations to Valve and Eccentric.
VIII. Note on Link Motions.
IX. Note on Very Early Cut-Off, and on Reversing Gears in General.
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_The Design and Construction_
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Erecting, Testing, Installing, Running and Repairing.
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KEROSENE OIL ENGINES.
By A. H. GOLDINGHAM, M.E.
_Synopsis of Contents of Chapters_:
1. Introductory, Classification, Vaporizers, Spraying and Ignition Devices, etc. 2. Design and Construction, Cylinders, Cranks, Shafts, Pistons, Connecting Rods, Fly-Wheels, Air and Exhaust Cams, Valves, etc., Bearings, Engine Frames, Valve Mechanisms, Gearing, Oil Supply, Different Kinds of Engines, etc. 3. Testing the Engine, Faults and Remedies, etc. 4. Cooling Water Tanks, Exhaust Silencers, Starters. 5. Oil Engine Driving Dynamo, Various Systems. 6. Oil Engine Driving Air Compressors. Water Pump, etc. 7. Full Instructions for Running Oil Engines. 8. Hints on Repairing. 9. Description of the Various English and American Oil Engines.
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SECOND EDITION
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SMALL ACCUMULATORS
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II.—How to make a 4-Volt Pocket Accumulator.
III.—How to make a 32-Ampere-Hour Accumulator.
IV.—Types of Small Accumulators.
V.—How to Charge and Use Accumulators.
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THE MAGNETO-TELEPHONE
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_BY NORMAN HUGHES_
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Transcriber's Notes
The Errata have been implemented.
Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. All other spelling, hyphenation and punctuation remains unchanged.
Italics are represented thus _italic_. Bold is indicated thus =bold=, except in the catalogue of books where, for the sake of clarity, it has not been indicated.