The Steam Engine Familiarly Explained and Illustrated: With an historical sketch of its invention and progressive improvement; its applications to navigation and railways; with plain axioms for railway speculators — John Shaqi
The Steam Engine Familiarly Explained and Illustrated: With an historical sketch of its invention and progressive improvement; its applications to navigation and railways; with plain axioms for railway speculatorsLardner, Dionysius
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The Steam Engine Familiarly Explained and Illustrated: With an historical sketch of its invention and progressive improvement; its applications to navigation and railways; with plain axioms for railway speculators
Lardner, Dionysius
Steam-engines -- Early works to 1850
We have not yet noticed the other steam vessel V´, which as far as we
have described, would have remained filled with common atmospheric
air, the pressure of which, on the valve A´, would have prevented the
water raised in the suction pipe S from passing through it. However,
this is not the case; for, during the entire process which has been
described in V, similar effects have been produced in V´, which we
have only omitted to notice, to avoid the confusion which the two
processes might produce. It will be remembered, that after the steam,
in the first instance, having flowed from the boiler through T, has
blown the air out of V through B, the communication between T and the
boiler is closed. Now the same motion of the regulator which closes
this opens the communication between T´ and the boiler; for the
sliding plate R (fig. 7.) is moved from the one tube to the other, and
at the same time, as we have already stated, the condensing pipe is
brought to play on V. While, therefore, a vacuum is being formed in V
by condensation, the steam, flowing through T´, blows out the air
through B´, as already described in the other vessel V; and, while the
air in S is rushing up through A into V followed by the water raised
in S by the atmospheric pressure on L, the vessel V´ is being filled
with steam, and the air is completely expelled from it.
The communication between T and the boiler is now again opened, and
the communication between T´ and the boiler closed by moving the
regulator R (fig. 7.) from the tube T to T´; at the same time the
condensing pipe is removed from over V and brought to play upon V´.
While the steam once more expels the air from V through B, a vacuum is
formed by condensation in V´, into which the water in S rushes through
the valve A´. In the mean time V is again filled with steam. The
communication between T and the boiler is now closed, and that between
T´ and the boiler is opened, and the condensing pipe removed from V´
and brought to play on V. While the steam from the boiler forces the
water in V´ through B´ into the force-pipe F, a vacuum is being
produced in V into which water is raised by the atmospheric pressure
at L.
Thus each of the vessels V V´ is alternately filled from S and the
water thence forced into F. The same steam which forces the water from
the vessels into F, having done its duty, is condensed, and brings up
the water from S by giving effect to the atmospheric pressure.
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