id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 11649 Various Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891 .txt text/plain 32794 1868 71 She was raised off the rocks by the water rising and compressing the air have pressure, or compressed air, in the bottle produced by heat alone. producing heat, and we cannot use compressed air as a power without suffered when compressed air does work in an engine and is expanded down showing the power required to compress moist and dry air has been the work expended in compressing one pound of dry air is 58,500 foot idea and constructed the compressed air plant illustrated in Fig. 2. the fact that air cylinders are connected to the steam piston rods. Steam at 58 lb.; air pressure, 77 lb.; total engine friction, 5 cylinders equal in diameter and stroke, an air pressure of 77 pounds is produces compressed air power at a loss of only six per cent. the present time some air compressor manufacturers admit water through ./cache/11649.txt ./txt/11649.txt