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Description: | [Letter] 1816 Feb 16, Eastbourne [to] Richard Trevithick, Penzance / Davies Gilbert. [3p. on 1 leaf. Gives theoretical treatment of expansive working of a non-condensing high-pressure steam-engine, concluding that pressure should be as high as possible and steam expanded to one atmosphere. Postscript compares expansive with non-expansive working and discusses implications of recent French experiments on the heating of steam] | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | letter | Temporal: | 1816 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Gilbert, Davies, 1767-1839 | Identifier: | 1993-123/5 | Go to resource |
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