Heat (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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A knowledge of the nature and the laws of heat should form the basis for the study and thorough understanding of all heat using machinery, such as the steam engine, the gas engine, the refrigerating machine, and the air compressor. This text is designed to supply the fundamental knowledge necessary for the successful study and understanding of this class of machinery. This text has also been regarded as a good foundation for advanced studies in these classes of machinery, treated as separate, special ized courses of study.

The first part of the text treats of the fundamental laws relating to the nature, generation, transfer, and transformation of heat, and presents familiar examples of their practical application in all cases. In this part also the expansion and compression of gases, and the nature and properties of steam, ammonia, carbon dioxide, and sulphur dioxide are taken up.

In the last part of the text the principles of the steam engine, the gas engine, the refrigerating machine, and the air compressor are treated, and the relation of the laws of heat to these classes of machinery is shown. No attempt is made to present a complete treatment of these classes of machinery, but enough is given so that one who has had no experience with them may understand the relation of the laws of heat to their principles and their operation.

Our experience has shown that this treatment of the subject J of heat is well adapted to the requirements of engineers and firemen who have had some experience with heat-using machinery; and understand its Operation, but who feel that they do not know enough about the laws of heat to allow them to take up advanced or special studies of this class of machinery with profit. More? Over, this treatment is broad enough to meet the needs of others' who are interested in any of the applications of heat.

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