McAndrew's Floating School: A Story for Marine Engineers |
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Mcandrew's Floating School: A Story for Marine Engineers (1914) Charles Albert Mcallister No preview available - 2009 |
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Page 196 - ... weight of lever, and weight of valve and stem being known) to withstand any given pressure of steam in a boiler, or who is not able to figure and determine the strain brought on the braces of a boiler with a given pressure of steam, the position and distance apart of braces being known, such knowledge to be determined by an examination in writing, and the report of examination filed with the application in the office of the local inspectors...
Page 200 - A sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center.
Page 196 - That any person who has served three years as apprentice to the machinist trade in a marine, stationary, or locomotive engine works, and any person who has served for a period of not less than three years as a locomotive or stationary engineer, and any, person graduated as a mechanical engineer from a duly recognized school of technology, may be licensed to serve as...
Page 196 - No person shall receive an original license as engineer or assistant engineer (except for special license on small pleasure steamers...
Page 196 - ... who is not able to determine the weight necessary to be placed on the lever of a safety valve (the diameter of valve, length of lever, distance from center of valve to fulcrum, weight of lever, and weight of valve and stem being known), to withstand any given pressure of steam in a boiler, or who is not able to figure and determine the strain brought on the braces of a boiler with a given pressure of steam, the position and distance apart of braces being known, such knowledge to be determined...
Page 84 - The proper curve of the face is the involute of a circle, the radius of which is equal to the distance between the center of the cam-shaft and the center of the stamp-stem.
Page 196 - ... apart of braces being known, such knowledge to be determined by an examination in writing, and the report of examination filed with the application in the office of the local inspectors, and no engineer or assistant engineer now holding a license shall have the grade of the same raised without possessing the above qualifications. No original license shall be granted any engineer or assistant engineer who cannot read and write and does not understand the plain rules of arithmetic.
Page 196 - ... engine works, and any person who has served for a period of not less than three years as a locomotive or stationary engineer, and any person graduated as a mechanical engineer from a duly recognized school of technology may be licensed to serve as an engineer...
Page 196 - ... preceding his application, which fact must be verified by the certificate in writing of the licensed engineer or master under whom the applicant has served, said certificate to be filed with the application of the candidate; and no person shall receive license as above, except for special license, who is not able to determine the weight necessary to be placed on the lever of a safety valve (the diameter of valve, length of lever, distance from center of valve to fulcrum, weight of lever, and...
Page 224 - PROPERTIES OF SATURATED STEAM. (Condensed from Marks and Davis's Steam Tables and Diagrams, 1909, by permission of the publishers, Longmans, Green & Co.) Total Heat Above 32° F.