The power corresponding to the “end of curve” in the brake power curve is represented as point (5A) in the Curve. Based on the brake power required, motor kilowatt or hp will be selected. If the compressor is driven by a steam turbine, then steam turbine is sized for 110% of the ...
Charles’ record stood for a long time because no-one else had the necessary combination of fitness, fearlessness and a friend with access to steam locomotives (the only things that could go fast enough at the time). By the 1920s, however, other riders started to...
The Sentinel company is best-known for its steam wagons and steam locomotives, but it also made high-speed steam engines. Left: Sentinel engine: circa 1904 This is a twin-tandem compound engine connected to the firm's own 'Sentinel' centrifugal pump. At extreme left a centrifugal givernor...
While other navies race to keep up with technological progress to steel breech loading guns on ships with steel hulls and ever more efficient steam engines, the US Navy was a fleet of a few dozen wooden ships spending much of the time under canvas and small and mostly laid-up ironclads fro...