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The valve-stems should be made the right length, and all check-nuts set up firmly. If for any purpose it becomes necessary to "set the valves" on a 1500-kilowatt mechanical gear, the operator should proceed in the following manner. Setting the Valves of a 1500-Kilowatt Curtis Turbine
Explain in note how all warmth approaching blood heat spoils fops and flounders. "FLYING IS A LOST ART AMONG MEN AND REPTILES. BATS FLY, AND MEN OUGHT TO. TRY A LIGHT TURBINE. RISE A MILE STRAIGHT, FALL HALF A MILE SLANTING, RISE HALF A MILE STRAIGHT, FALL HALF A MILE SLANTING, AND SO ON. OR SLANT UP AND SLANT DOWN. Poh! You ain't such a fool as to think that is new, are you?
In any case a small amount of the steaming water will pass by the gland collars into the turbine, so that if the condensed steam is to be returned to the boilers the water used in the glands must be of such character that it may be safely used for feed water.
As a matter of fact an oil-temperature curve plotted from periodical readings taken over a continuous run of considerable length usually reaches a maximum early, afterward falling to a temperature about which the fluctuations are only slight during the remainder of the run. In this case the oil system was of the gravity description, the capacity of the turbine being about 6000 kilowatts.
In the case of highly superheated steam, it is not undesirable to provide a connection in the steam line by means of which the turbine may be started up with saturated steam and the superheat gradually applied after the shaft has been permitted to revolve.
After completing and patents granted for his new improved Standard turbine, he was perfectly satisfied, and often remarked, "I cannot improve on my register gate turbine any more, as it is as near perfection as can be made," and he was fully convinced, for the past year he was experimenting with a cylinder gate turbine, and patent was granted Oct. 21, 1890.
With each turbine is installed a separate direct-acting steam pump for circulating oil for starting up. This will be referred to again under the head of operating. Generator
Afterward G.W. Davis owned and operated the mill and put in one 1858 patent "New Turbine." In 1889 the Farmville Mill Company bought and remodeled the mill to roller process and required more power than the old 1856 Jonval turbine and 1868 "New Turbine" would yield, and on Aug. 30, 1889, sold the Farmville Mill Company two 54 inch new improved Standard turbines to displace the two old wheels.
In the meantime, as has already been indicated, the steam turbine and dynamo combined, working practically as a single machine for the generation of electricity, offers practically the nearest approach to direct conversion which is yet well in sight. The last notable war of the nineteenth century has falsified the anticipations of nearly all the makers of small arms.
"May I see your dynamo?" asked Lermontoff. The Governor, with one final warming of his hands, took up a candle, told the gaoler to remove the shade from the lamp and bring it, led the way along a passage, and then into a room where the prisoner, on first entering, had heard the roar of water. "What's this you have. A turbine? Does it give you any power?"
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