A Treatise on the Richards Steam-Engine Indicator and the Development and Application of Force in the Steam-Engine. By Charles T. Porter. Fourth Edition, revised and enlarged, 8vo, cloth, 9s.
Contents.
- The Nature and Use of the Indicator:
- The several lines on the Diagram.
- Examination of Diagram No. 1.
- Of Truth in the Diagram.
- Description of the Richards Indicator.
- Practical Directions for Applying and Taking Care of the Indicator.
- Introductory Remarks.
- Units.
- Expansion.
- Directions for ascertaining from the Diagram the Power exerted by the Engine.
- To Measure from the Diagram the Quantity of Steam Consumed.
- To Measure from the Diagram the Quantity of Heat Expended.
- Of the Real Diagram, and how to Construct it.
- Of the Conversion of Heat into Work in the Steam-engine.
- Observations on the several Lines of the Diagram.
- Of the Loss attending the Employment of Slow-piston Speed, and the Extent to which this is Shown by the Indicator.
- Of other Applications of the Indicator.
- Of the use of the Tables of the Properties of Steam in Calculating the Duty of Boilers.
- Introductory.
- Of the Pressure on the Crank when the Connecting-rod is conceived to be of Infinite Length.
- The Modification of the Acceleration and Retardation that is occasioned by the Angular Vibration of the Connecting-rod.
- Method of representing the actual pressure on the crank at every point of its revolution.
- The Rotative Effect of the Pressure exerted on the Crank.
- The Transmitting Parts of an Engine, considered as an Equaliser of Motion.
- A Ride on a Buffer-beam (Appendix).
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