Object Details Description An engine indicator is an instrument for graphically recording the pressure versus piston displacement through an engine stroke cycle. Engineers use the resulting diagram to ...

They will have much to learn, and their knowledge will cost them too dear. An attempt to excel, materially, the reciprocating engine, in point of economy, by substituting a rotary, is chimerical.

The event on Saturday and Sunday, June 21 and 22, marked three quarters of a century since Arthur Napper and Miles Chetwynd-Stapylton D.F.C had a race with their traction engines. It was this event ...

0 0 This article was originally published with the title “The Friction of Steam Engines” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 23 No. 1 (July 1870), p. 4 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican07021870-4 ...