Author: Charles Frederick PartingtonPublisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Account of steam engines and other models of machinery
Author: Charles Frederick PartingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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The Governor
Author: John HannavyPublisher: Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN: 1399090917
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
A history of the creation and evolution of the mechanism that brought precision to the steam power and changed the world. Power without control is unusable power, and long after the invention of the steam engine, finding ways of applying that power to tasks where consistency was of paramount importance was the ‘Holy Grail’ which many steam engineers sought to find. It was the centrifugal governor which brought precision to the application of steam power, and its story can be traced back to seventeenth-century Holland and Christiaan Huygens’ development of both the pendulum clock and system controls for windmills, and governors are still at the heart of sophisticated machinery today—albeit electronic rather than mechanical. Without the centrifugal governor, precise control over the increasingly-complex machinery which has been developed over the past two centuries would not have been possible. It was the first device to give the engineman the control they needed. As machine speed increased, the governor had to evolve to keep pace with the demands for greater precision. Over a hundred British patents were applied for in the nineteenth century alone for ‘improvements’ in governor design, many of which could be fitted, or retro-fitted, to engines from every large manufacturer. Some enginemen, on taking up new appointments—their jobs depending on the precision and consistency of their engine’s operation—would even request that the governor be replaced with their preferred model. This book, the first to deal with the subject, tells the story of the evolution of the original ‘spinning-ball’ governor from its first appearance to the point where it became a small device entirely enclosed in a housing to keep it clean, and thus hidden from view. Praise for The Governor “A beautiful, well-produced book that any engineering-minded person with a passion for steam engines will be proud to own. It traces the story of attempts to get the speed of steam engines and other machinery under control. . . . The book is lavishly illustrated with many beautiful photographs of some of the author's favourite machines. . . . I found this a gloriously well-produced book which I devoured enthusiastically! I commend it to anyone with a serious interest in mechanical engineering.” —Richard Gibbon O.B.E. C.Eng F.I.Mech.E former Head of Engineering, National Railway Museum
Account of Steam Engines, and Other Models of Machiner
Author: Charles Frederick PartingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Steam Engines, Models and Machinery, &c
Author: American Institute of the City of New York. Committee on Steam Engines, Models, and MachineryPublisher:
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Category : Machinery
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Steam Engine
Author: Charles Frederick PartingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Steam-engines
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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A short account of the steam engine, and of its inventors
Author: George HamiltonAn Historical and Descriptive Account of the Steam Engine
Author: Charles F. PartingtonPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780332456096
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Excerpt from An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Steam Engine: Comprising a General View of the Various Modes of Employing Elastic Vapour as a Prime Mover in Mechanics The principal Object to be attained by the employment of the Steam Engine, as well as of every other species of machinery, being the te duction of animal labour, it may be advisable, before we proceed to the more immediate subject of the present work, to compare the various species of artificial power that have hitherto been employed for that purpose; and by this method we may be enabled to calculate with certainty and precision, on the most economical mode of producing a given force. To form, however, an accurate estimate Alf the saving thus effected, it will be necessary to examine, though but briefly, the amount of animal force and its result as applied to machinery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A Popular and Descriptive Account of the Steam Engine
Author: Charles Frederick PartingtonPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780282619909
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Excerpt from A Popular and Descriptive Account of the Steam Engine: Comprising a General View of the Various Modes of Employing Elastic Vapour as a Prime Mover in Mechanics; And on Steam Navigation; With an Appendix of Patents and Parliamentary Papers Connected With That Subject The use of water as an impelling power, both for the turning of machinery and other purposes connected with the usdul arts, appears to have been known at a very early period. Vitruvius describes a variety of machines for this purpose, the earliest of which were employed merely to raise a portion of the fluid by which they were impelled. The most simple method of applying this element as a mechanical agent evidently con sisted in the construction of a wheel, the periphery of which was composed of a number of float boards. This, on being exposed to the action of a running stream, was afterwards employed to give motion to a variety of mills, and is at the present time employed in almost every species of ma chinery. Among the most celebrated hydraulic machines, we may enumerate the Machine of Marly. This. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A Popular and Descriptive Account of the Steam Engine
Author: Charles Frederick PartingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Steam-engines
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The Steam Engine Explained and Illustrated
Author: Dionysius LardnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Steam-engines
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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