 These experiments were carried no higher than 280°, at which temperature the elasticity of steam was found equal to about four times the pressure of the atmosphere. By experiments which have lately been made by myself, the elasticity of steam at the...  Forged Steel Water-tube Marine Boilers ... - Page 12by Babcock & Wilcox Company - 1914 - 220 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1805 - 534 pages
...four times the pressure of the atmosphere. By experiments which have lately been made by my father, the elasticity of steam, at the temperature of boiling...has been estimated at about 600 degrees, was found equal to up* wards of forty times the pressure of the atmosphere. To the discovery of this principle... | |
 | Repertory of arts, manufactures and agriculture - 1805 - 534 pages
...four times the pressure of the atmosphere. Bv experiments which have lately been made by my father, the elasticity of steam, at the temperature of boiling...has been estimated at about 600 degrees, was found equal 19 upwards of forty times the pressure of the atmosphere. To the discovery of this principle... | |
 | Robert Henry Thurston - 1878 - 524 pages
...found equal to about four times the pressure of the atmosphere. By experiments which have lately been made by myself, the elasticity of steam at the temperature...boiling oil, which has been estimated at about 600°, was found to equal 40 times the pressure of the atmosphere. " To the discovery of this principle or... | |
 | Robert Henry Thurston - 1891 - 220 pages
...found equal to about four times the pressure of the atmosphere. By experiments which have lately been made by myself, the elasticity of steam at the temperature...boiling oil, which has been estimated at about 600°, was found to equal forty times the pressure of the atmosphere. "To the discovery of this principle... | |
 | Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland - 1898 - 488 pages
...found equal to about four times the pressure of the atmosphere. By experiments which have lately been made by myself, the elasticity of steam at the temperature...of boiling oil, which has been estimated at about G00", was found to equal 40 times the pressure of the atmosphere. To the discovery of this principle... | |
 | Babcock & Wilcox Company - 1901 - 194 pages
...correct principles of construction, from a series of experiments made in France in 1790 by M.Balamour, under the auspices of the Royal Academy of Sciences....that to derive advantages from an application of this principle, it is absolutely necessary that the vessel or vessels for generating steam should have sufficient... | |
 | William Graham Sumner - 1904 - 508 pages
...found equal to about four times the pressure of the atmosphere. By experiments which have lately been made by myself, the elasticity of steam at the temperature...boiling oil, which has been estimated at about 600°, was found to equal forty times the pressure of the atmosphere. " To the discovery of this principle... | |
 | Robert Henry Thurston - 1891 - 214 pages
...found equal to about four times the pressure of the atmosphere. By experiments which have lately been made by myself, the elasticity of steam at the temperature...of boiling oil, which has been estimated at about 6oo°, was found to equal forty times the pressure of the atmosphere. " To the discovery of this principle... | |
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