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Power Magazine – Steam Engines Articles From 1902 – Reprinted

US $11.98

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Jan 31st

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Power Magazine: Devoted to the Generation and Transmission of Power, edited by Lindsay Publications, published by Lindsay Publications, Bradley, IL, 2002. 8 1/2 x 11 softcover, 71 pages, ISBN 1-55918-279-2 For more than 131 years POWER magazine has been considered the definitive information source for the power generation market. We covered the earliest advances of steam power plants in the 1800s and addressed energy supply issues during World Wars I and II. We were the first to report on the birth of nuclear power, and today we report on modern advanced power technologies, including wind, solar, tidal, and ultrasupercritical generation. “Practical Hints, Tips and How-To" from the 1902 engineers who kept American industry running. If you like engines, but have the attention span of a four-year-old, then you probably need a book with lots of pitchers and few words. This, jack, ain't it. This is about the skill that went into getting engines running, keeping them that way, and transmitting the power throughout the plant with overhead line shafts. Let's suppose you're the head engineer who provides the power for the whole factory and after years of bellyachin', you finally convince the ol' man who owns the place to put in a new steam engine. Months later pieces of the engine start to arrive on railroad flat cars. The flywheel is 18 feet in diameter, weighs tons, and arrives in segments that have to bolted together, and moved into a vertical position. Then you have to make sure it is running smoothly on its bearings. How are you going to do it? Get a crane? A fork truck? Hardly. You assembled a team of men, timbers, and ropes running through blocks. You had to put the wheel together piece by piece by hand. But how would you go about it. What steps would you use? Hunt & Robbins will tell you in their article. You'll also get articles on the safe working strength of boilers, a method to calculate crank effort, erection of high-speed center-crank engines, practical hints on firing, oil grooves in journals, setting an eccentric, setting a slide valve, evolution of the shaft governor, practical how-to for maintaining over-head line shafts. You get several articles on boiler explosions. One boiler let go in Brooklyn in 1893. It wasn't until l902 that the last piece was found - in someone's backyard two football fields away. That piece weighed about a ton! You get interesting stories on Uncle Eb as engineer, summer hotel engineering (and you think your boss is incompetent!) and a series of interesting articles on the experiences of an old machinist named George Graham, and more. This certainly is illustrated, but if all you want is a picture book, forget it. This is about the secrets that went to the grave with the engineers – secrets that were rarely revealed in text books from the era. These were secrets learned from hands-on experience! If you build engines, run them, restore them, or just want to know more about the technology that built this country, this is worth having. Good stuff. Get a copy. Table of Contents: Advice to a Begunner A Relic of a Belt Wheel Explosion Safe working Strength of Boilers Building a Flywheel A Method of Calculating the Crank Effort Starting a Dynamo Uncle Eb as Engineer The Erection of High-Speed Center Crank Engines Flywheel Accident at Scranton, Pa. Practical Hints on Firing Furnace Arch Bars Flywheel Explosion at Decatur, Ill. Evolution of the Shaft Governor Accidental Increase in Speed or "Ractng” As a Cause of Flywheel Accident Summer Hotel Engineering Oil Grooves in Journals The Oldest Steam Engine Now at Work Runaway and Wreck of an Engine Setting the Slide Valve Diagrams from an Old-Timer Setting an Eccentric Perpetual Motion Shafting Hints Types of Pistons Some Experiences of George Graham, Engineer

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