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An elementary treatise on steam, more particularly as applicable to the purposes of navigation : with a familiar description of the engine; shewing the manner of its management in giving the rotatory motion; how started, eased, and stopped; the nature and properties of steam, on both high and low-pressure principles; its introduction into, and discharge from, the cylinders, illustrated; as, also, how to ascertain the quantum of actual pressure at which the engine is working; and the manner of condensing steam explained; together with a general account of the operations of the engine-room; shewing the accidents to which steam boilers are liable, and means of prevention; and, further the economy of coals, how to be effected, ... By Robert Otway |
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