On schools: with particular reference to trades schools

✍ Scribed by Joseph M. Wilson

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1890
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 438 KB
• Volume: 129
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(90)90193-m

✦ Synopsis

horse-power. Now, take same problem with a longer stroke, Ie /. 36 = 432 + 4-----io8 horse-power, showing its absurdity on its face, no speed, no mean pressure, no correctness in its result. The next two are unworthy your attention, except to show that such so-called rules exist. The last two show old and now obsolete rnles for nominal horse-power--no use in modern practice.