id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 13399 Various Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886 .txt text/plain 39183 2107 68 Motors for Street Railways.--Results of experiments on mechanical [Illustration: RAISING A FORTY INCH MAIN ON THE BOSTON WATER WORKS.] motors on tramways for use in towns, and between different forms of engines for use on light railways in country districts, or as these are mechanical motors, such as the Mekarski compressed-air engine, or the engine worked with superheated water, or cable tramways, or electrical This motor is a steam engine of light and simple form, supplied with It should be mentioned that with larger engines Mr. Rowan employs as much as 1,600 feet of condensing surface. The Beaumont engine, worked by compressed air, may be generally said to water-box, and worked by the direct action of a compound engine, with of the work originally given out by the steam-engine must be taken As regards the steam motors, the following were the results from the time ./cache/13399.txt ./txt/13399.txt