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قراءة كتاب The Steam Engine Explained and Illustrated (Seventh Edition) With an Account of its Invention and Progressive Improvement, and its Application to Navigation and Railways; Including also a Memoir of Watt

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The Steam Engine Explained and Illustrated (Seventh Edition) With an Account of its Invention and Progressive Improvement, and its Application to Navigation and Railways; Including also a Memoir of Watt

The Steam Engine Explained and Illustrated (Seventh Edition) With an Account of its Invention and Progressive Improvement, and its Application to Navigation and Railways; Including also a Memoir of Watt

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  • Proportion of Power to Tonnage 480
  • Improved Efficiency of Marine Engines 482
  • Iron Steam Vessels 483
  • Steam Navigation to India 484
  • CHAP. XIV.
  • AMERICAN STEAM NAVIGATION.
  • Steam Navigation first established in America 487
  • Circumstances which led to it 488
  • Attempts of Fitch and Rumsey to apply the single-acting Engine to the Propulsion of Vessels 489
  • Stevens of Hoboken commences Experiments in Steam Navigation 489
  • Experiments of Livingstone and Fulton 489
  • Fulton's first Boat 490
  • The Hudson navigated by Steam 491
  • Extension and Improvement of River Navigation 492
  • American Steamers 494
  • Difference between them and European Steamers 494
  • Steamers on the Hudson 494
  • American Paddle-wheels 495
  • Sea-going American Steamers 496
  • Speed attained by American Steamers 497
  • Lake Steamers 499
  • The Mississippi and its Tributaries 499
  • Steam-boats navigating it 500
  • Their Structure and Machinery 500
  • New Orleans Harbour 503
  • Steam Tugs 503
  • APPENDIX.
  • On the Relation between the Temperature, Pressure, and Density of Common Steam.
  • Empirical Formula of Biot, showing the Relation between the Pressure and Temperature 505
  • Empirical formula of
  • Southern 506
  • Tredgold 506
  • Mellet 506
  • De Pambour 506
  • MM. Dulong and Arago 506
  • Law of the Expansion of elastic Fluids, discovered by Dalton and Gay Lussac 506
  • Formula for the Relation between the Volumes and Temperatures 507
  • Law of Mariotte 507
  • Table of Pressures, Temperatures, Volumes, and Mechanical Effects of Steam 509
  • Empirical Formulæ for the Relation between the Volume of Water and that of the Steam produced by its Evaporation under given Pressures 511
  • Formula of Navier 511
  • Modified by De Pambour 511
  • On the Expansive Action of Steam.
  • Mechanical Effect produced during a given Extent of Expansion 511
  • Mechanical Effect produced during Evaporation and subsequent Expansion 512
  • Application to double-acting Engines 513
  • Formula for Pressure of Steam in Cylinders 514
  • Formula for total Mechanical Effect per Minute of Steam when cut off at any proposed Part of the Stroke 514
  • Formulæ exhibiting the Relation between the Resistance of the Load, the Resistances of the Engine, the Evaporation, the Speed of the Piston, and the Magnitude of the Cylinder 515
  • Formulæ showing the Relation between the Power of the Engine, the Evaporation, and the useful Load 516
  • Formulæ for the useful Effect and the Duty 517
  • Estimates of the several Sources of Resistances 518
  • Tables to facilitate the Computation of the Effects of Expansive Engines 519
  • Table of the Areas of Pistons 520
  • Examples of the Application of these Formulæ 521
  • INDEX.

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