Stationary steam engines, simple and compound; especially as adapted to light and power plants . 10 H. P. Vertical Engine.—N. Y, S. S. P. iron. As is customary with all well con-structed engines, these engines are set up and operated inthe shop long enough to exhibit all defects and to afford ELECTRIC LIGHTING PLANTS. I6i opportunity to make all adjustments before sending themout, and are thus made safe against those annoying delayswhich otherwise attend the introduction of such parts are made to gauge, and therefore interchangeable;and it is thus made easy to replace
Stationary steam engines, simple and compound; especially as adapted to light and power plants . 10 H. P. Vertical Engine.—N. Y, S. S. P. iron. As is customary with all well con-structed engines, these engines are set up and operated inthe shop long enough to exhibit all defects and to afford ELECTRIC LIGHTING PLANTS. I6i opportunity to make all adjustments before sending themout, and are thus made safe against those annoying delayswhich otherwise attend the introduction of such parts are made to gauge, and therefore interchangeable;and it is thus made easy to replace them when worn or in-jured, at minimum expense and with little delay The. Semi-Portable Engine. valves, and their seats, even, when worn, are taken out, sentto the shop, and the spare valve and seat, already fittedtakes the place of the parts removed. I f) 2 STEAM ENGINES FOR Where engines are of large size, they usually have theengine room and boiler room distinct; with these smallengines, however, it is found often to be desirable to placeengine and boiler side by side, and even upon a commonbase, as is illustrated by the last of the preceding forms what is known, frequently, as the semi-portable engine, to distinguish it from the portable,which last named style is mounted on wheels. THE ERICSSON AND WESTINGHOUSE ENGINES. ALL of the engines which have been considered in thepreceding articles are of one general type—thatknown as the double-acting reciprocating engine. Beforethe time of James Watt, the only engine in extended use,even in the limited field in which the steam engine was thenemployed—that of pumping water from mines—was a
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