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A practical manual that begins with a historical survey and the principles of hydro-mechanics, hydrostatics and pneumatics, then examines flow under pressure, gravity, and friction. It surveys water-pressure machines, water wheels and turbine types, and hydraulic apparatus including jacks, presses, accumulators and rams. The work classifies pumps and provides detailed, illustrated treatments of hand, belted, electric, steam (single, duplex and compound), centrifugal, rotary, jet and injector types, plus compressors, pulsometers and fire and mining applications. Practical guidance on valves, management, calculations, rules, tables and a glossary round out the text.
INDEX
TO PART ONE
Any one, and more especially the attentive student, can with the least trouble avail himself of the subject matter contained in this work by doing as indicated in the following old English couplet quoted by Chas. Reade.
“For index-reading turns no student pale,
Yet takes the eel of science by the tail.”