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1893 Article-Stearns Manufacturing Co., Woodbury Tandem Compound Steam Engine |
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Cassier's Magazine May 1893, pg. 118 |
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11/13/2012 1:30:14 PM |
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The Stearns Manufacturing Company, of Erie, Pa., show two Woodbury automatic, high speed, tandem-compound condensing engines. The smaller engine has fifteen and twenty five-inch cylinders, with twenty-inch stroke, and the governor and driving pulleys, one on each side of the engine, are each eighty-eight inches in diameter, and have twenty-three-inch faces. The engine is to run at 200 revolutions per minute, and the indicated horse-power, at maximum economy, will be 375. The maximum load, however, runs up to 500 indicated horsepower. The larger engine, which is exactly the same in design, has nineteen and thirty-one-inch cylinders of twenty-four inch stroke, and its driving and governor pulleys are 102 inches in diameter with each 31-inch face. The engine will run at a speed of 165 revolutions per minute, and the power for maximum economy will be 600 horse-power, while the maximum load will amount to 800. The two engines weigh respectively 34,000 and 67,500 pounds. |
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1893 Stearns Manufacturing Co., Woodbury Tandem Compound Steam Engine
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