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_A Treatise on the Richards Steam-Engine Indicator and the Development and Application of Force in the Steam-Engine._ By CHARLES T. PORTER.

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CONTENTS.

The Nature and Use of the Indicator: The several lines on the Diagram.

Examination of Diagram No. 1.

Of Truth in the Diagram.

Description of the Richards Indicator.

Practical Directions for Applying and Taking Care of the Indicator.

Introductory Remarks.

Units.

Expansion.

Directions for ascertaining from the Diagram the Power exerted by the Engine.

To Measure from the Diagram the Quant.i.ty of Steam Consumed.

To Measure from the Diagram the Quant.i.ty of Heat Expended.

Of the Real Diagram, and how to Construct it.

Of the Conversion of Heat into Work in the Steam-engine.

Observations on the several Lines of the Diagram.

Of the Loss attending the Employment of Slow-piston Speed, and the Extent to which this is Shown by the Indicator.

Of other Applications of the Indicator.

Of the use of the Tables of the Properties of Steam in Calculating the Duty of Boilers.

Introductory.

Of the Pressure on the Crank when the Connecting-rod is conceived to be of Infinite Length.

The Modification of the Acceleration and r.e.t.a.r.dation that is occasioned by the Angular Vibration of the Connecting-rod.

Method of representing the actual pressure on the crank at every point of its revolution.

The Rotative Effect of the Pressure exerted on the Crank.

The Transmitting Parts of an Engine, considered as an Equaliser of Motion.

A Ride on a Buffer-beam (Appendix).

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