INDEX.
249
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Table of Southern’s experiments on the
force of steam . . 70
Taylor’s experiments on pure water ibid
scale of force of steam ibid
Arsberger’s experiments on high
pressure steam . . 71
— Ivory’s calculations . . 71, 72
force of alcohol vapour . 72, 74
Cagniard’s, de la Tour, experiments
on ether . . .75
force of ether vapour . 75, 76
— Ure’s and Dalton’s experiments on
ether . . .76
force of vapour from sulphuret of
carbon . . .77
Cagniard's, de la
Tour, experiments on . 78
force of petroleum . . 79
force of turpentine . . ibid
mechanical power of gases . 82
— various substances where one vo
lume of water is shown to produce
more vapour than an equal volume of
any other substance in the list . 83
Roy’s experiments on air and steam 86
effect of contractions . . 88
the effect of combustibles 109, 110, 111
the effect of fuel . 112,113
quantity of smoke from fuel . 115
quantity of fire surface for boilers 118
experiments on boilers 119, 120
power of boilers . 123,124
for calculating safety valves 142, 143
of the power of cranks 228—230
the teeth of wheels . . 244
the effect of engines . . 278
the supply of towns with water 280
experiments on canal boats 294, 295
for calculating the resistance of ves
sels . . . 296
of steam vessels . 316, 317, 318
the properties of steam . 322
the proportions of single engines 323
the proportions of double engines
324, 325
Tappets . .187, 224, 265
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Taylor’s, Philip, scale of the force of steam 70, 178
Taylor and Martineau . . 178
Teeth of wheels . . . 244
Thomson, Dr. T. . . 110,114
Thrashing machines . . 283
Throttle valve . . 27, 210, 261
Tonnage of a steam vessel . .320
Towing boats . . . 41, 315
Towns, supply of water for . .280
Trevithick and Vivian . . 41, 141
Turpentine vapour . . 55, 79
U.
Ure, Dr. . . * 44
’s mode of experimenting . 54, 67
tables of experiments on the force of
steam . . .69
experiments by 54, 74, 76, 79, 168
Useful effect, mode of measuring . 269
V.
Valves
safety
rule for
throttle
Kingston’s
arrangement of
principles of construct!
boxes
rising
clack
foot
flat
Bramah’s slide
conical
Field’s
Hornblower’s
sliding
rotary-
plate
modes of opening
Vapour, force of
175, 203
139
App. 210
261
353
204
. ibid
. ibid
204
205
. ibid
. ibid
,207
205
262
206
207
210
213
224
. 56, 57