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Page 117
... steam . Is not the subject mostly historical ? Have we not graduated long since into the electrical age ? And are ... steam has ruled for a century , the flare of modernization is linked in the public consciousness with spectacular new ...
... steam . Is not the subject mostly historical ? Have we not graduated long since into the electrical age ? And are ... steam has ruled for a century , the flare of modernization is linked in the public consciousness with spectacular new ...
Page 119
... steam is heat , and the po- tential heat stored in fuel is reckoned in a standard quantity known as ' the British thermal unit . ' Every pound of good coal contains approximately 14,500 thermal units in potential form . Every horsepower ...
... steam is heat , and the po- tential heat stored in fuel is reckoned in a standard quantity known as ' the British thermal unit . ' Every pound of good coal contains approximately 14,500 thermal units in potential form . Every horsepower ...
Page 120
... steam inside the cylinder , Watt led it off in a pipe to a separate cooling chamber some distance away , and did the ... steam cir- culated and kept the interior mechanism as nearly as possible at a constant tem- perature . The ...
... steam inside the cylinder , Watt led it off in a pipe to a separate cooling chamber some distance away , and did the ... steam cir- culated and kept the interior mechanism as nearly as possible at a constant tem- perature . The ...
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