id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 13358 Various Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891 .txt text/plain 37757 2195 74 of power.--The new compressed air station, with full details important experiments with armor plates have attracted large At steel works where plates for our new navy are being manufactured, Before its admission into the mains a certain loss occurs at the St. Fargeau station, in the large reservoirs to which the air is delivered ordinary steam engines driven by air an efficiency of 80 per cent. given to the improvement of air engines, and that with increased application of the power of steam to useful work in our later days. amount of heat supplied and of power produced, is the best engine, and engine, the steam entering first heated up the interior of the working Since the days of Watt, the improvement of the steam engine and the steam gives to-day ten times the power then obtained from it. latest and most useful handmaid of steam, has given the engine work to ./cache/13358.txt ./txt/13358.txt