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The Calculation of Horsepower Made Easy (Classic Reprint) Leonard Elliott Brookes No preview available - 2018 |
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absolute pressure actual or brake air brake amperes ascertain atmospheric pressure average effective pressure average pressure average steam pressure back pressure boiler Boyle's law brake horsepower CALCULATED HORSEPOWER carbonic clearance combustion chamber combustion space COMMON LOGARITHMS compression in atmospheres crank shaft cubic foot cubic inches cylinder degree of compression degrees Fahrenheit diameter divided electrical horsepower exhaust port explosive motor Gasoline gauge pressure given gives Half leather HAND-BOOK heat illustrated indicated horsepower indicator diagram initial pressure Logarithms of Numbers mantissa mechanical efficiency multiplied Natural Log natural logarithm number corresponding number of revolutions piston in inches piston in pounds piston stroke point of cut-off pounds per square pressure in pounds pressure per square Price FREDERICK receipt of price revolutions per minute Sent Postpaid shaft per minute speed square inch steam engine steam is cut stroke in feet temperature vertical voltage weight of steam World upon Receipt YK Pressure
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Page 64 - The calorie is the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one gram of water one degree centigrade.
Page 66 - To find the area of a circle, multiply the square of the diameter by .7854.
Page 69 - The logarithm of a number is the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise a fixed number, in order to produce the first number.
Page 35 - J4 to l/2 or ~y\ inch, being naturally larger the larger the engine. The clearance volume or the percentage clearance on the other hand is the actual volume contained between the face of the valve and the face of the piston when the latter is at the end of the stroke plus the volume of the steam port...
Page 5 - The standard of horsepower is the amount of energy that will raise a weight of 33,000 pounds one foot high in a minute, or 550 pounds one foot high in one second. An engine or motor exerting one actual horsepower will raise a weight of 10 pounds 3,300 feet in one minute, but will require 10 minutes to raise 330,000 pounds one foot high.