| Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 842 pages
...strokes which the engine makes in a minute, being the multiple of all these, and is thus obtained : — Multiply the square of the diameter of the cylinder in inches, by the pressure on each square inch of the piston, not expressed in pounds weight, but in the height of a... | |
| sir Robert Spencer Robinson - 1839 - 216 pages
...quantity of water required for steam, find the volume of steam from a cubic foot of water by Rule 2nd. Multiply the square of the diameter of the cylinder in inches by half the velocity of the piston in inches, or six times the velocity in feet per minute, cut off two... | |
| Artizan club (London, England) - Steam engineering - 1847 - 338 pages
...be found from the following rule. RULE. — To find the diameter of the top of the blast pipe. — Multiply the square of the diameter of the cylinder in inches by -017. Theproduct is the diameter of the top of the blast pipe in inches. Example. — The diameter... | |
| John Bourne (C.E.) - Steam engineering - 1850 - 326 pages
...twist them off when acting at 6 inches radius. To find the diameter of a cast iron fly wheel shaft: multiply the square of the diameter of the cylinder in inches by the length of the crank in inches, and extract the cube root of the product, which multiply by 0.3025, and the '... | |
| John Bourne (C.E.) - 1850 - 298 pages
...condensing and if working at four times the ordinary speed, may be ascertained by the following rule : — multiply the square of the diameter of the cylinder in inches by the cube root of the stroke in feet, and divide the product by 12 ; the quotient is the power of the high... | |
| John Bourne - Steam engineering - 1851 - 346 pages
...acting at G inches radius. The strength for cast-iron crank shafts may be determined by multiplying the square of the diameter of the cylinder in inches by the length of the stroke in feet, multiplying by the decimal '15, and extracting the cube root of the product, which... | |
| Oliver Byrne - Engineering - 1851 - 310 pages
...when of cast iron. — Multiply the square of the length of the crank in inches by 1-561, and then multiply the square of the diameter of the cylinder in inches by -1235 ; multiply the sum of these products by the square of the diameter of cylinder in inches ; divide... | |
| Septimus Norris - Locomotives - 1852 - 356 pages
...quantity of water in the boilerRULE — To find the cubical content of the water in the boiler- — Multiply the square of the diameter of the cylinder in inches by 9 ; divide the product by 40- The quotient is the cubical content of the water in the boiler in cubic... | |
| John Bourne (C.E.) - Steam engineering - 1853 - 344 pages
...become an element in the computation. The rule for the nominal power will therefore stand thus : — Multiply the square of the diameter of the cylinder in inches by the pressure on the piston in pounds per square inch, and by the cube root of the stroke in feet, and divide... | |
| William Somerville Orr - Science - 1860 - 540 pages
...2 feet, half that of the piston, its area must be — — =: 16 square inches, or its diameter 4 J inches. As a general rule for the dimensions of the...cylinder 30 inches diameter and a stroke of 4 feet. 30 ^¿ 40 ^í 4 „i = 40, the product of diameter squared by stroke. If we take the stroke of the... | |
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