"The accumulator may consist of a large tank in which are numerous plates over which water can flow,…
"Suppose a hollow cube to be filled with some fluid (water or steam) at a given pressure, and to have…
A back axle of a Leyland petrol wagon illustrating direct drive. The middle casing houses the reducing…
A side view of Barford and Perkins water—ballast rollers. The vehicle operated using an internal…
A Yorkshire steam wagon transverse boiler. Water is continuously enters the large cylindrical container.…
A side internal and chassis view of Albion car. The car has 16 horsepower and weighs 2 tons. The shaft,…
"It is usual to put the engine on center before setting the valve. First put the engine in a position…
An internal combustible Barford and Perkins water ballast rollers chassis. The fuel tank is located…
A Hallford—Stevens petrol—electric vehicle. The vehicle is considered to be an early hybrid…
An illustration of the Rolls Royce chassis with engine and axle viewed form the top. A chassis is the…
"One of the chief advantages of the side—chain drive lies in the fact that there is, with it,…
A superheated steam tractor built by Colonel Crompton. The boiler, located in the front, heats the water,…
"When set full gear forward, the valve admits steam to the crank end of the cylinder, and the crank…
"The upper bearing with dowel—pins and key fit into corresponding dowel holes and key—way…
A eight cylinder Bentley superheated steam engine fitted to a tractor. The steam is used to move the…
A six cylinder Rolls Royce engine viewed from the carburetor side. The carburetor is used to mix air…
"In this engine the cam—shaft by which the steam and exhaust valves are operated is situated midway…
"An eccentric on the main shaft gives an oscillating motion to a circular disc called the wrist plate,…
The inner workings of the Carmania. A description of how the ship gets power in order to move on the…
Illustration showing a twin cylinder steam engine fitted to a sentinel wagon. The steam expands and…
"The marine turbine of this type (Curtis turbine) installed in the U.S. Cruiser Salem had seven pressure…
A valve side view of the six cylinder Rolls Royce engine, showing the location of the magneto. The magneto…
A six cylinder fire engine with Gwynne centrifugal pump by Dennis Brothers Ltd. The engine have a retractable…
A Halley six cylinder fire engine with centrifugal pump. The fire engine pumps water from the tank in…
"Now if the plate were shaped as shown, so that the direction of the jet were completely reversed turned…
A cross sectional view of a four stage vertical Riedler—Stumpf turbine. The steam enters and exit,…
"The governor cam rod operates a plate cam having a curved slot so shaped that it takes place of both…
A Joy valve gear for steam engine rotating the wheel in the direction of the arrow. The lever F changes…
An outline of the Marshall gear from a steam engine. The piston rotates the crank shaft at point H around…
"The steam arm is keyed to the valve spindle which passes loosely through a bracket on which the bell—crank…
An illustration of the steam engine with Walschaert gear system on rail tracks. The piston moves the…
"The main valve controls admission, release, and compression; the other (valve) regulates the cut—off…
An illustration of a Corliss steam engine to generate 5000 kW of electricity. The turbines to create…
"By placing the condensers underneath the turbine, as is frequently done at the present time, not only…
A cross sectional view of Rateau electric generator turbine by Western Electric Company. Steam is used…
"The bearings are of the plain ring—oiling type, usually provided with water jackets. The shaft…
"Turbines require very much smaller foundations than reciprocating engines reciprocating engines of…
"The Zoelly turbine has been developed rather extensively abroad, and is being manufactured largely…
"In the Curtis turbine, steam is admitted through a series of valves, the number of which depends upon…
"All fly—wheel governors operate by shifting the eccentric either to change the angular advance,…
"An admission of steam occurs about once in every thirty revolutions at approximately full load. The…
"If a jet with the velocity V strikes the bucket at an angle a, its velocity A B could be resolved into…
"As the speed increases, and the link is 'notched up', the lead is increased as the cut—off is…
"Steam enters at E and gradually expands in volume until it exhausts at G. The rotor is usually built…
"This occurs in horizontal engines when the valve is set on top of the cylinder instead of on one side.…
"Since the valve must move a distance equal to the outside lap before admission can take place, it is…
"The relative positions of crank, eccentric and valve when the exhaust closes on the crank end and compression…
"While the crank is moving from the position, steam is being admitted to the head end and being exhausted…
An illustration of the valve with lap at the end of the crank end steam compression. The piston will…
"If the inside lap is increased, the valve must move farther before released occurs and the crank angle…
"This arrangement makes it possible to place the valve and steam chest above the valve motion. A rod…
A Marshall's agricultural hydraulic gear tractor. The fuel tank is located on the bottom back of the…
A tractor compound steam engine with outside suspension spring. The spring suspension helps stabilize…
"In this machine a petrol or paraffin engine drives a water—ballast roller through the medium…
An illustration of 9000 kilowatts capacity vertical Curtis turbine. Each turbines are located between…
"In 1629, Branca, an Italian, invented a turbine much like a miniature water wheel, which was driven…
A cross sectional view of Westinghouse Parsons turbine. Steam enters at V and exits at E, turning the…
"In 1885, Parsons took out his first turbine patent on a motor along the lines previously suggested…
"In 1858, Hartman Bros. patented a turbine consisting of two revolving disks c and c' fixed to a shaft…