Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884Various
Science
Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884
Various
Science -- Periodicals
Regulators, Dynamometers, Pneumatic and Hydraulic machinery. Determining
_moduli_ of machines.
POWER, transmission by gearing, belting, water, compressed air, etc.
LOADS, transportation.
III.
HISTORY AND PRESENT FORMS OF THE PRIME MOVERS.
_Windmills_, their theory, construction, and application.
_Water Wheels_. Theory, construction, application, testing, and
comparison of principal types.
_Air, Gas, and Electric Engines_, similarly treated.
STEAM ENGINES.--Classification. [Marine (merchant) Engine assumed as
representative type.] Theory. Construction, including general design,
form and proportion of details.
_Boilers_ similarly considered. Estimates of _cost_.
_Comparison_ of principal types of Engines and Boilers. Management and
repairing. Testing and recording performance.
IV.
MOTORS APPLIED to Mills. Estimation of required power and of _cost_.
Railroads. Study of Railroad machinery.
Ships. Structure of Iron Ships and rudiments of Naval architecture and
Ship propulsion.
PLANNING Machine shops, Boiler shops, Foundries, and manufactories of
textile fabrics. Estimating _cost_.
LECTURES BY EXPERTS.
GENERAL SUMMARY of principal facts, and natural laws, upon the thorough
knowledge of which successful practice is based; and general _resume_
of principles of business which must be familiar to the practicing
engineer.
V.
GRADUATING THESES.
GRADUATION.
Accompanying the above are courses of instruction in higher mathematics,
graphics, physics, chemistry, and the modern languages and literatures.
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IMPROVED DOUBLE BOILER.
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