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Take a hollow cylinder (fig. 1) of indefinite height, the bottom of which is closed while the top remains open, and fill this cylinder to the height of a few inches with water.
Next cover in the water by means of a flat plate, or piston, which fits perfectly the in terior of the cylinder, and then apply heat to the water we shall witness the following phenomena. After the lapse of some minutes the water will begin to boil, and steam will accumulate at its upper surface between it and the piston, which latter will be raised slightly in order to make room for the steam. As the boiling process continues, more and more steam will be formed, and the piston will be raised higher and higher, till the whole of the water is boiled away, and nothing but steam is contained in the cylinder. Now this apparatus, consisting of cylinder, piston, water, and fire, is an elementary form of steam engine of the simplest kind. For a steam engine may be defined as an apparatus for doing work by means of heat applied to water and it is manifest that the appliance just described, inconvenient and clumsy though it may be, perfectly answers to the definition; for the piston is a weight, and this weight has been raised to a certain height by the formation of steam from the water. Now the raising of a weight through a height is a particular form of doing work, and consequently this combination is an apparatus capable of doing work by means of heat applied to water.
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Excerpt from The Steam Engine
Take a hollow cylinder (fig. 1) of indefinite height, the bottom of which is closed while the top remains open, and fill this cylinder to the height of a few inches with water.
Next cover in the water by means of a flat plate, or piston, which fits perfectly the in terior of the cylinder, and then apply heat to the water we shall witness the following phenomena. After the lapse of some minutes the water will begin to boil, and steam will accumulate at its upper surface between it and the piston, which latter will be raised slightly in order to make room for the steam. As the boiling process continues, more and more steam will be formed, and the piston will be raised higher and higher, till the whole of the water is boiled away, and nothing but steam is contained in the cylinder. Now this apparatus, consisting of cylinder, piston, water, and fire, is an elementary form of steam engine of the simplest kind. For a steam engine may be defined as an apparatus for doing work by means of heat applied to water and it is manifest that the appliance just described, inconvenient and clumsy though it may be, perfectly answers to the definition; for the piston is a weight, and this weight has been raised to a certain height by the formation of steam from the water. Now the raising of a weight through a height is a particular form of doing work, and consequently this combination is an apparatus capable of doing work by means of heat applied to water.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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The progress of technical education in this country during the last few years has rendered necessary the production of an elementary text book on the Steam Engine, containing information upon branches of the subject which have hitherto received but scant notice in works of this nature. I have endeavoured, as far as the limits of space in this small volume permitted, to make good these deficiencies, which were for the most part brought under my notice by engineering students.
There are four important points in which I venture to hope this book will be found to contain information, put in a form suitable for beginners, which has hitherto only been accessible in works of a more advanced character or in those which only profess to treat special branches of the subject.
They are as follows: -
1. The modern science of thermodynamics, which is the foundation of all knowledge of the steam engine considered as an apparatus for converting heat into mechanical work.
2. The very important effects exercised on the motion of quick running engines by the inertia of their reciprocating parts.
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