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a mechanical damping device containing a piston that moves in a fluid filled chamber to serve as a pneumatic or hydraulic cushion for a falling weight as in the valve gear of a steam engine to prevent shock...
Cycloscope
A machine for measuring at any moment velocity of rotation as of a wheel of a steam engine...
Crosshead
A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod etc or a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin as the solid crosspiece running between parallel slides which receives motion from the piston of a steam engine and imparts it to the connecting rod which is hinged to the crosshead...
Collapse
To fall together suddenly as the sides of a hollow vessel to close by falling or shrinking together to have the sides or parts of a thing fall in together or be crushed in together as a flue in the boiler of a steam engine sometimes collapses...
Instroke
An inward stroke specif in a steam or other engine a stroke in which the piston is moving away from the crank shaft opposed to outstroke...
Relay cylinder
In a variable expansion central valve engine a small auxiliary engine for automatically adjusting the steam distribution to the load on the main engine...
M Naught
To increase the power of a single cylinder beam engine by adding a small high pressure cylinder with a piston acting on the beam between the center and the flywheel end using high pressure steam and working as a compound engine a plan introduced by MNaught a Scottish engineer in 1845...
High pressure
Having or involving a pressure greatly exceeding that of the atmosphere said of steam air water etc and of steam air or hydraulic engines water wheels etc...
Accident
Accident, anything that happens, an unforeseen or unexpected event, a chance, a mishap, an extraordinary incident; something not expected. It is also a head of equitable jurisdiction, which was concurrent with that of the Courts of Law.Means an unlook for mishap or an untoward event which is not expected or designed, Fenton v. Thorley & Co. Ltd., 1903 AC 443: 72 LJKP 787: 89 LT 314 (HL).The meaning to be attached to the word accident,' in relation to equitable relief, is some unforeseen and undersigned event, productive of disadvantage and not due to negligence or misconduct on the part of the person seeking relief. The cases in which equity may give relief under certain conditions are (1) lost or destroyed documents. (2) Imperfect execution of powers. (3) Erroneous payments, e.g., by personal representatives.In logic, something, in any subject, person, or thing not belonging to the essence. See ESSENCE.The popular and ordinary sense of the word 'accident' means the mishap or an untowa...
Railway
Railway. A road owned by a private person or public company on which carriages run over iron rails; if the road is a public highway, that part of it on which the rails are laid is called a tramway. Every railway in this country (except a few private railways running through land owned by the owner of the railway) is constructed and managed (1) under a local and personal Act of Parliament; and (2) under the Companies Clauses, Lands Clauses, and Railways Clauses Consolidation Acts; and (3) under the general Acts relating to railways. The (English) Railway Act, 1921, provides for the reorganization of almost all the railways in England.Railway Companies as Carriers, The powers of railway companies as carriers are given by the 86th section of the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, and controlled by the (English) Railway and Canal Traffic Acts of 1854, 1873, and 1888. The (English) Act of 1845, s. 86, enacts that:-It shall be lawful for the company [authorized (see s. 3) by the speci...
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