 | Andrew Betts Brown - Engineering - 1866 - 448 pages
...of a steam engine is calculated by multiplying together the area of the piston in inches, the mean pressure in pounds per square inch, the length of the stroke in feet, and the number of strokes per minute ; and dividing by 33,000. "Water wheels yield from 50 to 91 per... | |
 | American Gas Light Association - Gas - 1902 - 594 pages
...continued product of the mean effective pres-mre in pounds per square inch of the steam in the cylinder, the length of the stroke in feet, the area of the...square inches and the number of strokes per minute. This product is then divided by 33,000. The rule may be expressed in the following formula : HP = 3... | |
 | James Emerson (of Willimansett, Mass.) - Hydraulic turbines - 1878 - 234 pages
...of a stesim-engine is calculated by multiplying together the area of the piston iu inches the mean pressure in pounds per square inch, the length of the stroke in feet, and rhe number of strokes per minute, and dividing by 33,000. Water-wheels yield from 50 to 91 per... | |
 | James Emerson (of Willimansett, Mass.) - Hydraulic turbines - 1892 - 544 pages
...of a stesim-engine is ealeulated by multiplying together the area of the piston in inches the mean pressure in pounds per square inch, the length of the stroke in feet, and ihe number of strokes per minute, and dividing by 33,000. of tlie workmanship. To compute the number... | |
 | 1897 - 366 pages
...consider the well-known rule for finding the horsepower of a steam-engine, which may be stated as follow : Divide the continued product of the mean effective...square inches, and the number of strokes per minute, by 88,000 ; the result ioill be the horsepower. This is a very simple rule, and very little, if anything,... | |
 | Wooster Woodruff Beman, David Eugene Smith - Arithmetic - 1897 - 256 pages
...p, I, o, n are abstract numbers representing the pressure in pounds per square inch on the piston, the length of the stroke in feet, the area of the...square inches, and the number of strokes per minute. Calculate the horse-power, to the nearest unit, of each of these engines : (a) p = 20, I - 6, a = 400,... | |
 | Wooster Woodruff Beman, David Eugene Smith - Arithmetic - 1897 - 234 pages
...abstract numbers representing oo,UUU the pressure in pounds per square inch on the piston, the tength of the stroke in feet, the area of the piston in square inches, and the number of strokes per minute. Calculate the horse-power, to the nearest unit, of each of these engines : (a) p = 2G, 1=6, a= 400,... | |
 | International Correspondence Schools - Marine engineering - 1900 - 614 pages
...now be explained. First, consider the well-known rule for finding the horsepower of a steam-engine, which may be stated as follows: Divide the continued...square inches, and the number of strokes per minute, by 83,000 ; the result will be the horsepower. This is a very simple iule, and very little, if anything,... | |
 | International Correspondence Schools - Arithmetic - 1902 - 794 pages
...formulas, the formulas themselves will now be explained. First, consider the well-known rule for rinding the horsepower of a steam engine, which may be stated...square inches, and the number of strokes per minute, by 83,000 ; the result will be the horsepower. This is a very simple rule, and very little, if anything,... | |
 | Engineering - 1902 - 514 pages
...follows : Divide the continued product of the mean effective pressure in pounds per square inch, t lie length of the stroke in feet, the area of the piston...square inches, and the number of strokes per minute, by 38,000 ; the result will be the Jwrsepoiver. This is a very simple rule, and very little, if anything,... | |
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Divide the continued product of the mean effective pressure in pounds per square inch, the length of the stroke in feet, the area of the piston in square inches, and the number of strokes per minute, by 33,000 ; the result will be the horsepower. 
