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1890 Images-Watts, Campbell & Co., Corliss Steam Engine |
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The Practical Steam Engineer's Guide 1890 pgs 56-57 |
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Since compactness and lightness are not as essential as in portable, locomotive and marine engines, the parts are arranged in stationary engines with a view simply to securing efficiency, and the design is determined by circumstances. It was formerly usual to adopt the condensing engine in mills, and wherever a stationary engine was required. In Europe generally, and to some extent in the United States, where a supply of condensing water is obtainable, condensing engines and moderate steam pressures are still employed. But this type of engine is gradually becoming superseded by the high pressure non-condensing engine, with considerable expansion, and with an expansion-gear in which the point of cutoff is determined by the governor. The best known engine of this class is the Corliss, which is very extensively used in the United States, and which has been copied very generally by European builders. Figs. 9 and 10 represent a Corliss Engine, as built by Watts, Campbell & Co., Newark, N. J. |
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1890 Watts, Campbell & Co., Corliss Steam Engine
1890 Watts, Campbell & Co., Corliss Steam Engine
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