triple-cylinder

Updated: May 3, 2025

But this advantage of saving room comes much more prominently forward in marine engines, especially in war ships, where every inch of room saved is valuable; and in the new type of triple-cylinder engines now coming so much into vogue in the mercantile marine, whether those engines be only the ordinary three-cylinder engines with double expansion, or the newer, triple expansion engine, expanding the steam consecutively through three cylinders the form of marine engine which promises to come into use wherever high-class work and economy are required.

Various - Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884