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PUFFERS |
Steam engines |
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TURBINES |
Steam engines |
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LOCOMOTIVES |
Steam engines |
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DUMMY |
A locomotive with condensing engines, and, hence, without
the noise of escaping steam; also, a dummy car. |
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SPANNER |
A contrivance in some of the ealier steam engines for
moving the valves for the alternate admission and shutting off of the
steam. |
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GOVERNOR |
A contrivance applied to steam engines, water wheels, and
other machinery, to maintain nearly uniform speed when the resistances
and motive force are variable. |
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HIGH-PRESSURE |
Having or involving a pressure greatly exceeding
that of the atmosphere; -- said of steam, air, water, etc., and of
steam, air, or hydraulic engines, water wheels, etc. |
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BOILER |
... plates
riveted together, or a composite structure variously formed, in which
steam is generated for driving engines, or for heating, cooking, o... |
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ROCK SHAFT |
...of
revolving, -- usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and
communicates reciprocating motion, as in the valve gear of some steam... |
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ECCENTRIC |
... center
of the wheel and that of the shaft do not coincide. It is used for
operating valves in steam engines, and for other purposes. The motion... |
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LOCOMOTIVE |
A locomotive engine; a self-propelling wheel carriage,
especially one which bears a steam boiler and one or more steam engines
which communicat... |
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PISTON |
... which it moves, back and forth. It is used
in steam engines to receive motion from the steam, and in pumps to
transmit motion to a fluid; also ... |
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HORSE POWER |
...ed to
drive machinery, and in estimating the capabilities of animals or steam
engines and other prime movers for doing work. It is the power req... |