On a new type of steam engine, theoretic
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Robert H. Thurston
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Article
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1877
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Elsevier Science
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English
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I.--It is easy to show that the existing common type of steam engine, even if perfect as a piece of mechanism, necessarily wastes a very large proportion of the heat-energy which is supplied to it, and that no possible improvement short of a complete change of type can greatly increase the efficienc