A Handbook on the Steam Engine
Subtitle: with especial reference to small and medium-sized engines, for the use of engine makers, mechanical draughtsmen, engineering students, and users of steam power
By: by Hermann Haeder
Contributors: Powles, Henry Handley Pridham,
Edition: 3rd English edition, Revised.
Publisher: Crosby Lockwood and Son
Published: 1902
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng; ger
Translated from: ger
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 458
Subjects: Steam-engines.
Description: "Translated from the German, with considerable additions and alterations by H.H.P. Powles"
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: Section I
pagenum: 5
title: Types of steam engines; label: Section II
pagenum: 15
title: Details of steam engines; label: Section III
pagenum: 133
title: Governors; label: Section IV
pagenum: 150
title: Valve gears; label: Section V
pagenum: 271
title: Condensers, air-pumps, and feed-pumps; label: Section VI
pagenum: 292
title: Examples of engines of Continental make, from actual practice; label: Section VII
pagenum: 317
title: Particulars of engines by English makers; label: Section VIII
pagenum: 354
title: Compound engines; label: Section IX
pagenum: 372
title: Indicator and indicator diagrams; label: Section X
pagenum: 387
title: Calculations for power and steam consumption; label: Section XI
pagenum: 401
title: Effect of inertia on reciprocating parts of engines; label: Section XII
pagenum: 410
title: Friction brake dynamometer; label: Section XIII
pagenum: 412
title: Sundry details; label: Section XIV
pagenum: 416
title: Boilers; title: Index
pagenum: 453