Stationary steam engines, simple and compound; especially as adapted to electric lighting purposes . Sew**: ^ JOHN WILEY & SONS,53 E. 10th Street. 1890. Tb~| Copyright, 1883, Electrician. Copyright, 1884, R. H. Thurston. Copyright, 1890, R. H. Thurston. Press of J. J. Little & Place, New York. v/ PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION. THIS little book is composed of articles written by theauthor for the Electrical Engineer, supplemented bylater revision, and by the addition of matter relating to thenow familiar compound engine, which had been origi-nally prepared for the lecture-room and subs
Stationary steam engines, simple and compound; especially as adapted to electric lighting purposes . Sew**: ^ JOHN WILEY & SONS,53 E. 10th Street. 1890. Tb~| Copyright, 1883, Electrician. Copyright, 1884, R. H. Thurston. Copyright, 1890, R. H. Thurston. Press of J. J. Little & Place, New York. v/ PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION. THIS little book is composed of articles written by theauthor for the Electrical Engineer, supplemented bylater revision, and by the addition of matter relating to thenow familiar compound engine, which had been origi-nally prepared for the lecture-room and subsequently pre-sented in abstract to the American Society of MechanicalEngineers. It had its origin in a request, by the editor ofthe periodical above mentioned, that the readers of thatjournal be given an account, in simple and concise butfairly complete form, of the various types of steam-enginein common use ; of the principles of their design ; the cir-cumstances determining their efficiencies and their economyof steam and fuel; their various forms as usually built, andthe best methods
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