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The Steam Engine Considered as a Thermodynamic Machine : A Treatise on the Thermodynamic Efficiency of Steam Engines Illustrated by Diagrams, Tables, and Examples from Practice (Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged, 1890)
E. and F.N. Spon, London and New York Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1890 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, editor's full green printed clothes fort et grand In-8 1 vol. - 437 pages
few black and white figures and tables, one folding plate with a diagram second reprinted and enlarged edition, 1890 Contents, Chapitres : Preface, Contents, xi, Text, 426 pages and catalogue (28 pages) - Physical properties of steam - Convertibility of heat and work, internal work - Theory of the steam engine, preliminary - Air and gas engines - Perfect thermodynamic machines - Generator and expansion of steam - Perfect engines with any given cycle - Losses of efficiency in heat engines - Clearance and wire-drawing - Action of the sides of the cylinder and of water remaing after exhaust - Experiments on steam engines, condition of economical working - Tables - Appendix, notes and addenda near fine copy, the editor's green binding is in overall very good condition, clean and unmarked, inside is near fine, no markings, very few foxings, complete of the folding plate, it remains a near fine copy of the second edition, 1890 in the original editor's binding
