Steam Engines (Illustrated)

CHAPTER 01 : ACTION OF STEAM ENGINES
Principle of the Steam Engine
Work Diagram
Definitions Relating to Engine Diagrams
Construction of Ideal Diagram

CHAPTER 02 : RATING AND GENERAL PROPORTIONS OF STEAM ENGINES

CHAPTER 03 : STEAM ENGINE DETAILS
The Slide Valve
The Eccentric
Different Types of Valves
Engine Details

CHAPTER 04 : STEAM ENGINE ECONOMY
Multiple Expansion Engines
Steam Consumption and Ratio of Expansion
Effect of Condensing

CHAPTER 05 : TYPES OF STEAM ENGINES
Selection of an Engine

CHAPTER 06 : STEAM ENGINE TESTING
Planimeter
Determining Steam Consumption

First Published 1911
Kindle Edition Published 2011