[DOWNLOAD] "Steam Engines" by Anonymous * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free

eBook details
- Title: Steam Engines
- Author : Anonymous
- Release Date : January 19, 2010
- Genre: Engineering,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 2129 KB
Description
A steam engine is a device by means of which heat is transformed into work. Work may be defined as the result produced by a force acting through space, and is commonly measured in foot-pounds; a foot-pound represents the work done in raising 1 pound 1 foot in height. The rate of doing work is called power. It has been found by experiment that there is a definite relation between heat and work, in the ratio of 1 thermal unit to 778 foot-pounds of work. The number 778 is commonly called the heat equivalent of work or the mechanical equivalent of heat.