Duty trial of a pumping engine, built by the Geo. F. Blake Manufacturing Company

✍ Scribed by Cecil H. Peabody

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1893
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 867 KB
• Volume: 135
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(93)90171-p

✦ Synopsis

In the spring of i892, the author was requested by The Geo. F. Blake Manufacturing Company to make a duty trial of a pumping engine, designed and built by them for the City Water Works, of Newton, Mass., and located at Newton Upper Falls. The engine had then been running under the normal conditions of regular service for some time, and it, with the boilers, which however were furnished by the company, were in good regular running condition. The test was made solely for the information of the company, and the author considered it desirable that the conditions secured, and the precautions taken, should be such that the performance of the engine during the test