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Steam engines. As to the negligent use of the furnaces of these, see the Steam Engine Furnaces Act, 1831; and as to damaging or obstructing them, see (English) Malicious Damage Act, 1861, ss. 29, 35, 36. See also ss. 114-116 of the (English) Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, and the Railway Fires Act, 1905, as amended by 13 & 14 Geo. 5, c. 27; Martin v. G.E. Ry. Co., (1912) 2 KB 406. See ENGINE; ROAD TRAFFIC....
Internal combustion
Designating or pertaining to any engine called an Internal combustion engine in which the heat or pressure energy necessary to produce motion is developed in the engine cylinder as by the explosion of a gas and not in a separate chamber as in a steam engine boiler The gas used may be a fixed gas or one derived from alcohol ether gasoline petrol naphtha oil petroleum etc There are three main classes 1 gas engines proper using fixed gases as coal blast furnace or producer gas 2 engines using the vapor of a volatile fluid as the typical gasoline petrol engine 3 oil engines using either an atomized spray or the vapor produced by heat of a comparatively heavy oil as petroleum or kerosene In all of these the gas is mixed with a definite amount of air the charge is composed in the cylinder and is then exploded either by a flame of gas flame ignition now little used by a hot tube tube ignition or the like by an electric spark electric ignition the usual method is gasoline engines or by the hea...
Blast pipe
The exhaust pipe of a steam engine or any pipe delivering steam or air when so constructed as to cause a blast...
Piston
A sliding piece which either is moved by or moves against fluid pressure It usually consists of a short cylinder fitting within a cylindrical vessel along which it moves back and forth It is used in steam engines to receive motion from the steam and in pumps to transmit motion to a fluid also for other purposes...
Fixtures
Fixtures. Things of an accessory character which are not something which is part of the original struc-ture, Boswell v. Crucible Steel Co., (1925) 1 KB 119, annexed to houses or lands, which become, immediately on annexation, part of the realty itself, i.e., governed by the same law which applies to the land, in conformity with the maxim quicquid plantatur solo, solo cedit. The application of this legal principle, however, is not uniform, as may be thus shown:(1) Between landlord and tenant. If the chattels be not let into the soil, they are not fixtures at all, and may be removed at will, like any other species of personal property. When the chattel is connected with the free-hold, by being let into the earth, or by being cemented or otherwise united to some erection attached to the ground, the question arises-when may the tenant remove such fixtures?The general rule as to annexations made by a tenant during the continuance of his term is the following-Whenever he has affixed anything...
Soleplate
A bedplate as the soleplate of a steam engine...
Rock shaft
A shaft that oscillates on its journals instead of revolving usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion as in the valve gear of some steam engines called also rocker rocking shaft and way shaft...
Movable
Capable of being moved lifted carried drawn turned or conveyed or in any way made to change place or posture susceptible of motion not fixed or stationary as a movable steam engine...
industrial revolution
The changes in the methods of production as well as the resulting changes in economic and social organization accompanying the replacement of hand labor by power driven machinery It started in England in about 1760 and spread to other countries with very varying time lags The introduction of powered machinery such as the steam engine and power loom led to the concentration of large areas of manufacturing in large companies and made some goods more plentiful and cheaper by mechanical production and economies of scale...
Foot valve
A suction valve or check valve at the lower end of a pipe esp such a valve in a steam engine condenser opening to the air pump...
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