 | Alonzo Gray - Physics - 1850 - 422 pages
...accuracy and uniformity the number of its strokes in a given time, counting and recording them, moreover, to tell how much work it has done, as a clock records the beats of its pendulum. It regulates the quanHow is the steam condensed in the low-pressure engine 1 How is the power of the engine estimated?... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1851 - 492 pages
...following remarks. " The steam engine, (says he,) in its present improved state, appears to be a tiling almost endowed with intelligence. It regulates, with...parts where a perfect vacuum is required; and when anything goes wrong which it cannot of itself rectify, it warns its attendants by ringing a bell. Yet... | |
 | Henry Stephens - Agriculture - 1852 - 732 pages
...uniformity," he observes, "the number of its strokes in a given time — counting or recording them, moreover, to tell how much work it has done, as a clock records the beats of its pendulum ; — it regulates the quantity of steam admitted to work — the briskness of the fire — the supply of water to the boiler... | |
 | George Grant (author of Panorama of science.) - Inventions - 1852 - 270 pages
...accuracy and uniformity, the number of its strokes in a given time, counting. or recording them moreover, to tell how much work it has done, as a clock records the beats of its pendulum ; it regulates the quantity of steam admitted to work ; the briskness of the fire; the supply of water to the boiler ;... | |
 | Neil Arnott - Physics - 1853 - 536 pages
...accuracy and uniformity the number of its »troke» in a given time, counting or recording them, moreover, to tell how much work it has done, as a clock records the beats of its pendulum ; — it regulates the quantity of gleam admitted to work; — the briskness of the fire ; — the tupply of water to the... | |
 | Neil Arnott - 1853 - 536 pages
...accuracy and uniformity the number of its strokes in a given time, counting or recording them, moreover, to tell how much work it has done, as a clock records the beats of its pendulum; — it regulates the quantity of steam admitted to work ; — the briskness of the fire ; — the supply of water to the... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - Biography - 1854 - 732 pages
...accuracy and uniformity the number of its strokes in a given time; counting or recording them, moreover, to tell how much work it has done, as a clock records the beats of its pendulum; it regulates the quantity of steam admitted to work ; the briskness of the fire ; the supply of water to the boiler... | |
 | William O. Blake - Biography - 1856 - 1124 pages
...accuracy and uniformity, the number of its strokes in a given time, counting or recording them, moreover, to tell how much work it has done, as a clock records the beats of its pendulum ; it regulates the quantity of steam admitted to work ; the briskness of the fire, the supply of water to the boiler ;... | |
 | Jean Roemer - English language - 1857 - 332 pages
...accuracy and uniformity the number of its strokes in a given time, and counts and records them moreover, to tell how much work it has done, as a clock records the beats of its pendulum ; it regulates the quantity of steam admitted to work, the briskness of the fire, the supply of water to the boiler, the... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1858 - 468 pages
...of the piston, only one third of a cylinder was necessary. 246. As an example of a self ^regulating machine, the steam engine surpasses all other forms...parts where a perfect vacuum is required; and when anything goes wrong which it cannot of itself rectify, it warns its attendants by ringing a bell. Yet... | |
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In the present perfect state of the engine it appears a thing almost endowed with intelligence. It regulates with perfect accuracy and uniformity the number of its strokes in a given time, counting or recording them, moreover, to tell how much work it... 
