The watch and clockmakers' handbook: By F. J. Britten. Fourth Edition. London: W. Kent & Co., Paternoster Row, and Grimshaw and Baxter, 35 Goswell Road. 1881

✍ Scribed by L.H.S.

• Book ID: 103090280
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1882
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 58 KB
• Volume: 114
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(82)90373-8

✦ Synopsis

But to steam users economy is the great question, and the expense • of a proper and careful test is insignificant compared with the continuous saving afterwards.

Articles collected from different sources on the "care of boilers," "some points in engine building," "belting," "setting pumps," " piston-rod packing," etc., contain useful information. Tables on the properties of steam, strength of materials, mean pressures at different rates of expansion, etc., are given. In the last-mentioned table, however, no account seems to be taken of clearance, release and condensation.

J.H.