INDEX 



Decimal, Reducing a common 

 fraction to a, 5. 



to a common fraction, 



Reducing a, 5. 

 Decimals, Addition of, 4 



Division of, 5. 



Multiplication of, 4. 



Subtraction of, 4. 

 Delivered horsepower, 191. 

 Denver.Colo., license law, 256. 

 Detroit, Mich., license law, 



257. 



Developed blade area, 234. 

 Diagrams, Taking indicator, 



181. 



Diameter of propeller, Re- 

 quired, 237. 

 Differential pulley, Go. 

 Dimensions of iron boiler 

 tubes, 53. 



of pipe flanges, 51. 



of steel boiler tubes, 52. 

 Dirty and gritty oils, 219. 

 Disadvantages of oil fuel, 1GO. 

 Disk area, 234. 

 Division of decimals, 5. 



of fractions, 3. 



of matter, 54. 

 Double-tube injectors, 123. 

 Draft, Measurement of, 108. 



Production of, 108. 



required for oil fuel burn- 

 ing, 157. 



Driven pulleys, 67. 

 Driving pulleys, 67. 

 Dynamometers, 195. 



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Economy of heating feed- 

 water, 138. 

 Edges of brasses pinching 



journal, 218. 

 Effect of sulphur in oil, 80. 



of vacuum in turbines, 223. 

 Effects of clearance, 182. 

 Efficiency, Boiler, 141. 



of engine, Mechanical, 191. 

 Elements, 54. 

 Machine, 63. 

 Table of atomic weight of, 



55. 

 Elgin, 111., license law. 258. 



Ellipse, 36. 



Engine management, 203. 

 Mechanical efficiency of, 



191. 



out of line, 221. 

 Overloading of, 221. 

 speed and ship speed, Rela- 

 tion between, 243. 

 Starting and stopping com- 

 pound Corliss, 210. 

 Starting compound slide- 

 valve, 207. 



Starting condensing slide- 

 valve, 206. 

 Starting non - condensing 



slide-valve, 205. 

 Starting simple Corliss, 207. 

 Stopping compound slide- 

 valve, 209. 



Stopping condensing slide- 

 valve, 206. 

 Stopping non-condensing 



slide-valve, 205. 

 Stopping simple Corliss, 



207. 

 with hot bearings, Running, 



216. 



Engineers' license laws, 244. 

 Engines, Causes and remedies 



for pounding of, 210. 

 Comparison of turbines 



and, 225. 

 Horsepower of compound, 



194. 



Indicating of, 172. 

 Stating size of, 193. 

 Steam, 172. 

 Steam pipes for, 102. 

 Warming up, 203. 

 Equalizing the boiler feed, 



148. 



Equivalent evaporation, 141. 

 Erosion of turbine blades, 



226. 

 Errors of reducing motion, 



ISO. 



Evaporation, Equivalent, 141. 

 Factor of, 142. 

 Table of factors of, 143. 

 Evaporative power of oil fuel, 



86. 

 Evolution, 6. 





