A water-pressure engine for so small a quantity of water, with a fall of about 30 feet, would cause a loss of 50 per cent.
I saw at the Weith Mine in 1805 a portable high-pressure engine, made by Captain Trevithick.
When in the autumn of 1810 Trevithick returned to Cornwall, the experience of ten busy years had established the practicability and usefulness of the high-pressure engine.
We are going on, as it is likely we always shall, in the old dog-trot way, puddling and rolling from the beginning of the week till the end of it.
The boiler is strong enough and large enough to work this engine with 30 lbs.
If a starting valve is used to admit live steam to the receiver pipe and thence to the low-pressure engine, this gives a higher pressure to the low-pressure cylinders.
If there is no intercepting valve to furnish live steam to the forward engine, open the starting valve to admit live steam to the receiver pipe and low-pressure engine.
Exhaust steam from the high-pressure engine can pass to the exhaust nozzle instead of to the low-pressure engine.
When in compound position, the intercepting valve cuts off the supply of live steam to the receiver pipe and forces the exhaust steam to go to the low-pressure engine ahead.
She was just ready to steam south with a derangement of her high-pressure engine when I last saw her.
After that came sudden stillness, and the third frantically span the wheel that cut off the steam, while grimy men went sliding and floundering over the slippery plates and platforms toward the high-pressure engine.
In the meanwhile the second engineer was leaning out from a slippery platform that swung and slanted as the Adelaide lurched over the long gray seas, listening to the dull pounding of the high-pressure engine.
Century of Inventions, is a high-pressure engine; for the power there alluded to is the elastic force of steam working against the atmospheric pressure.
The suggestion was not, however, then acted on, and he fell back on his original design of a simple non-condensing high-pressure engine.
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