The Transmission of Power by Compressed Air

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D. Van Nostrand Company, 1878 - 133 Seiten
 

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Seite 31 - ... of the head; the absolute initial pressure was 5.70 atmospheres, and it was reduced to 5.50 atmospheres whilst there was an expenditure at the rate of 64 cubic feet of compressed air per minute. In the middle of the tunnel, through a length of pipe of 3.8 miles, the absolute pressure fell only from six atmospheres to 5.7 atmospheres, or to .95 of the original pressure. At the Hoosac Tunnel the air was carried through an 8-inch pipe from the compressors to the heading, a distance of 7,150 feet,...
Seite 41 - It has been found best to take a thermal unit to be the quantity of heat which correspends to some definite interval of temperature in a definite weight of a particular substance. ' Def. A British Thermal Unit is the quantity of heat which corresponds to an interval of one degree of Fahrenheit's scale, in the temperature of one pound of pure liquid water at its temperature of greatest density (39°.
Seite 44 - All forms of energy are convertible. 2. The total energy of any substance or system cannot be altered by the mutual actions of its parts.

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