This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.
| identifier | question |
|---|---|
| 39033 | ( 2) What objections are there to having the girders in contact with the crown plate of the fire- box throughout their whole length? |
| 39033 | ( 2) Why are steel bar stays not generally enlarged at their screwed ends? |
| 39033 | (_ b._) What is the object of using chipping or facing strips in fitting up machine parts? |
| 39033 | How are these rings got into place? |
| 39033 | How is the length of the stroke altered, and what is the object of the slotway in the upper part of the ram? |
| 39033 | How many threads to the inch are used on an inch bolt? |
| 39033 | If the link A is fixed, through what distance will the link B move for two turns of the lever? |
| 39033 | Would it be practicable to replace the two rods A B and B C by a single rod working on the crank pins at A, B, and C? |
| 39033 | Write out answers to the following questions:( 1) What is the advantage of having the screwed part of the bar larger in diameter than the rest? |
| 44502 | And for some years back scientists and economists have been asking themselves, What then? |
| 44502 | And then-- who can imagine, who dare predict, the social and economic revolution that must follow? |
| 44502 | But how explain these facts themselves? |
| 44502 | But how was the primitive man, with his small knowledge of mechanics, to predict such a result? |
| 44502 | But what determines the ether strain? |
| 44502 | But what, then, is this strange power that has produced all these multifarious results? |
| 44502 | CHAPTER VIII THE SMALLEST WORKERS The relative size of atoms and electrons, p. 148--What is electricity? |
| 44502 | Could a mighty mill- wheel be adjusted in that dizzy current, what labors might it not perform? |
| 44502 | He may be disposed to say,"You speak of the nitrogen as being ignited and burned; but if it is burned and thus consumed, how can it be of service?" |
| 44502 | How shall we picture to ourselves the actual change in the current represented by this difference in voltage? |
| 44502 | What is this something? |
| 44502 | Why is an electric current generated in a coil of wire moving in a magnetic field? |
| 44502 | Why not connect the cylinder with another receptacle, in which the condensation of the steam could be effected? |
| 46094 | Will it,asks a writer in_ The World''s Work_,"ultimately displace the conventional traction- engine and its heavy trailing waggons? |
| 46094 | [ 25] Will our farmers give the same welcome to the agricultural motor that was formerly accorded to the mechanical reaper? 46094 After all it is merely a question ofWill it pay?" |
| 46094 | Again, suppose that an iron- tyred vehicle, travelling at a rapid pace, meets a large stone, what happens? |
| 46094 | Are not engineers still improving the locomotive? |
| 46094 | Do not all cyclists know the fatigue of riding over a bumpy road-- fatigue to both muscles and nerves? |
| 46094 | Does not that seem to be his fair share of the work? |
| 46094 | Does she employ more operatives than she would otherwise have done, and are these better paid than the old hand weavers? |
| 46094 | Has England, as a cotton- spinning nation, benefited because the power- loom was introduced? |
| 46094 | How can such a movement be judged? |
| 46094 | How to raise it? |
| 46094 | Improved locomotion is necessary; how can it best be provided? |
| 46094 | It might be asked"Why should standards of such great accuracy be required?" |
| 46094 | Now what has been going on inside the machine all this time? |
| 46094 | What are these? |
| 46094 | What chance is there in this case for a good stop?" |
| 46094 | What is a bridge of this kind? |
| 46094 | What is that strange- looking machine over there? |
| 46094 | What were the towers for? |
| 46094 | What will become of the stonemasons? |
| 46094 | Where does man come in? |
| 46094 | Why, thought he, could not real cars be made to run by some better form of motive power? |
| 46094 | Wo n''t they all be thrown out of work, or at least a large number of them? |
| 46094 | Would the laying of the tubes seriously impede traffic? |
| 46094 | Would the measuring bars not compress a body a little before it appeared tight? |
| 20361 | How does a planet applaud? |
| 20361 | Where? |
| 20361 | With a faint flush of light? |
| 20361 | A bush or a tree with two or three other bushes or trees near by, and just enough sky to go with it-- is it not enough? |
| 20361 | A foundry is powerful and interesting, but is it beautiful the way an electric fountain is beautiful or a sonnet or a doily?" |
| 20361 | And I have said to you though I did not know it:"Did you not call to me? |
| 20361 | Are not the bell and the whistle and the cloud of steam, and the rush, and the peering in his eyes words enough? |
| 20361 | But where am I?_''"The grasshopper may be called the poet of the insects. |
| 20361 | Can a Machine Age have a soul? |
| 20361 | Can we not live behind the ramparts of our books? |
| 20361 | Could all the money in the world ever pay him for it? |
| 20361 | Could money have thought of it or dared it or desired it? |
| 20361 | Did you hear anything? |
| 20361 | Do I think to pay my fare to the infinite?--I-- a parasite of a great roar in a city? |
| 20361 | Does any one say this thing he is doing is done for money-- that it is not done for comradeship or love? |
| 20361 | Does any science in the world suppose or dare to suppose that I am as unimportant in it as I look-- or that I could be if I tried? |
| 20361 | Does he not shake loose the Force of Gravity-- make the very hand of God to tremble? |
| 20361 | Dost thou not behold thy hands and thy feet?" |
| 20361 | Had he not already, thousands of times in the history of this planet, flung his spirit upon the cold, and upon empty space-- and made homes out of it? |
| 20361 | Has He not kindled the fire in my bones and out of the burning dust warmed me before the stars-- made a hearth for my soul before them? |
| 20361 | Has the twentieth century, I have wondered, a man in it who shall feel Himself? |
| 20361 | Have I not seen the great Sun Itself, from out of its huge heaven, packed in a seed and blown about on a wind? |
| 20361 | Have I not seen two trains full of the will of the body of the man meet at full speed in the darkness of the night? |
| 20361 | Have we not defined poetry? |
| 20361 | I find myself saying one minute,"Are not the whole human race my house- servants? |
| 20361 | I thought to my soul,"Where art thou?" |
| 20361 | I would say,"in which Bottle?" |
| 20361 | If we look about in this present day for a suitable and worthy expectancy to make an age out of, or even a poem out of, where shall we look for it? |
| 20361 | In the literary definition? |
| 20361 | Is it not HERE-- this ninety- five millionth mile? |
| 20361 | Is it not THERE? |
| 20361 | Is it nothing to have laid the boundary line of beauty?... |
| 20361 | Is it true that, in a few years more, if a man wants the society of his kind, he will have to look down through a hatchway? |
| 20361 | Is not London my valet-- always at my door to do my bidding? |
| 20361 | Is not the world filled with hastening to me? |
| 20361 | Is there any one to- day so small as to know where he is? |
| 20361 | It seems a little abrupt at this moment, perhaps, but it is a mere detail and why not leave it to God to work it out? |
| 20361 | My soul answered me:"Did you expect a world to be indexed? |
| 20361 | Or that, if he wants to be happy, he will have to stand on it and look away? |
| 20361 | Or why argue about the man, or argue about the man''s God, or quibble with words? |
| 20361 | Perhaps you have seen me, Gentle Reader, in The Great Street, in the long, slow shuffle with the others? |
| 20361 | Shall any man ask me to prove there are miracles or to put my finger on God? |
| 20361 | That, with all the apparent prose that piles itself about his machine, the machine is in all essential respects a poem to him, who can question? |
| 20361 | The question"Is a thing beautiful?" |
| 20361 | The world is a great WHO CARES?" |
| 20361 | This paper- ticket I give him-- for this berth I lie in-- does it pay him for it? |
| 20361 | What is there my brother has not done for me? |
| 20361 | What matters it that he is a wordless man, that he wears not his heart in a book? |
| 20361 | What we would like to be-- even what we are-- who can say? |
| 20361 | When I have stilled myself with sleep, do I not know that the lightning is waiting on me? |
| 20361 | When I look upon the glory of the other worlds, has not science itself told me that they are a part of me and I a part of them? |
| 20361 | Where are the gleams? |
| 20361 | Who can shut me out from anybody''s sunrise? |
| 20361 | Who has ever known an inventor, a man with a passion in his hands, without feeling toward him as he feels toward a poet? |
| 20361 | Who shall find a tree that looks down upon the spirit of the pine? |
| 20361 | Who shall persuade the brakemen to leave the track? |
| 20361 | Who would believe it? |
| 20361 | Who, that has lived these latter years, that has seen it crashing and breaking through the old one, can deny that what is over us now is a new heaven? |
| 20361 | Why had no one ever taught him anything before? |
| 20361 | Why should I go up and down a universe crying through it,"Where are those that belong to me?" |
| 20361 | Why should a man dare to whine? |
| 20361 | Why should a man who has seen the inside of matter care about appearances, either in little things or great? |
| 20361 | Will I ever travel near enough, far enough?" |
| 20361 | Would it be anything new to the man to be maltreated, a little, neglected-- almost outwitted by a universe? |
| 20361 | or to go out into some great breath of emptiness or argument to be sure there is a God? |
| 20361 | resolves itself into"How large has a beautiful thing a right to be?" |
| 20361 | that I am a parasite rolled up in a drop of dew, down under a shimmering mist of worlds that do not serve me nor care for me? |
| 20361 | the historical argument? |
| 20361 | the minor poet? |
| 39225 | =--What causes the flow of water up the suction pipe of a pump? 39225 Do small taps alter more in diameter from hardening than large ones?" |
| 39225 | Do taps that remain of true pitch after hardening remain true, or increase or diminish in diameter? |
| 39225 | Do you soften your taps after roughing them out in the lathe? |
| 39225 | The above defects undeniably exist; now, what do they amount to? 39225 The next consideration is, what is the average strength of a plate of boiler iron? |
| 39225 | What increase in diameter do you allow for shrinkage in hardening of hob taps for tapping solid dies? |
| 39225 | What is friction? 39225 13) makes 1 revolution per minute, how many will C make, A having 60 teeth, B 30 teeth, and C 40 teeth? 39225 1399, 8 inches long and 1- 1/16 inches diameter with a taper of 1/16 inch to the foot, this is the standard of what? 39225 375.--What is a separate cut- off valve, and what event does it control in the supply of the steam to the cylinder? 39225 377.--What is a piston valve? 39225 413.--How are indicators attached to an engine? 39225 414.--What difference is there between the lines of a diagram of a condensing and those of a non- condensing engine? 39225 415.--How is the expansion curve of a diagram tested? 39225 424.--How is the amount of air cushion in the Corliss dash- pot regulated? 39225 = A perfect gas.=--What is Marriotte''s law, or Boyle''s law? 39225 = Absolute pressure.=--What is meant by the absolute pressure of steam? 39225 = Adjusting Shoes.=--In what position would you place the crank when adjusting the shoes or wedges of the axle- boxes? 39225 = Adjusting guide bars.=--What two essential points are there in adjusting the bottom guide bars of an engine? 39225 = Admission.=--What is the point of admission? 39225 = After oiling.=--What points would you move after having oiled the engine? 39225 = Air pumps.=--What is a bucket air pump, and is it single or double acting? 39225 = Air- pump valves.=--Are a foot valve and a head valve always necessary to an air pump? 39225 = Alignment of crank pin.=--What is the general cause of a crank pin being out of line with the crank shaft? 39225 = Altering the speed of a shaft.=--Do a pair of mitre wheels alter the speeds of the shaft they drive or not? 39225 = Amount of coal.=--How much coal would you put on the fire at a time? 39225 = Appearance Of a joint.=--What is the appearance of a finished ground joint? 39225 = Arranging compound cylinders.=--What are the two methods of arranging compound cylinders? 39225 = Automatic cut- off.=--What is an automatic cut- off engine? 39225 = Babbitt bearing.=--What is the principal advantage of a Babbitted bearing? 39225 = Backward.=--What is full gear backward? 39225 = Ball and socket hangers.=--What are the advantages of hangers having a ball and socket adjustment? 39225 = Banking.=--What is banking a fire? 39225 = Barometer.=--What is a barometer, and for what purpose is it used in connection with engine diagrams? 39225 = Before cleaning a fire.=--What preparations would you make before cleaning the fire? 39225 = Before firing.=--What should be done before laying the fire? 39225 = Belt pump.=--What is the advantage possessed by a belt pump? 39225 = Best boiler feed.=--Which is better, a constant or an intermittent boiler feed? 39225 = Best firing.=--Which is better, heavy firing at long intervals or light and frequent firing, and why? 39225 = Best heat joint.=--What is the best kind of joint to withstand great heat or flame? 39225 = Best lathe tool.=--What is the most useful turning tool for a hand lathe, such as is sometimes provided for an engineer to make repairs with? 39225 = Best test for alignment.=--What part of an engine can be used to form the best test of alignment to cure pounding? 39225 = Best water joint.=--What are the best kinds of joints for withstanding water pressure? 39225 = Bilge injection.=--What is a bilge injection? 39225 = Blow- through valve.=--What is a blow- through valve? 39225 = Blowing down.=--How much would you blow down a boiler? 39225 = Blue flame.=--What does blue flame in the fire box indicate? 39225 = Boiler draft.=--What causes the draft in a boiler? 39225 = Boring bar edges.=--Should a boring bar for an engine cylinder have one, two, three or four cutters? 39225 = Breaking of tubes.=--What is the commonest cause of boiler tubes breaking? 39225 = Breaking strain.=--About what is the breaking strain of wrought iron per square inch of section? 39225 = Broken crank- pin.=--What if the crank- pin broke? 39225 = Broken cylinder cover.=--What would you do if the cylinder cover got knocked out while on the road? 39225 = Broken lifting link.=--What if a lifting link or saddle- pin broke? 39225 = Broken piston rod.=--What if the piston rod broke? 39225 = Broken reach rod.=--How would you hold the tumbling shaft if the reach rod broke? 39225 = Broken spring hanger.=--What if a spring or spring hanger broke? 39225 = Bursted tube.=--What if a tube bursted? 39225 = Butt joint.=--What are the advantages of the butt joint? 39225 = Butt weld.=--What is a butt or pump weld? 39225 = Case- hardening.=--What is case- hardening? 39225 = Cause of pounding.=--What is the ordinary cause of beating and pounding in an engine? 39225 = Chain and zigzag riveting.=--How does a chain riveted joint differ from a zigzag riveted joint? 39225 = Changing clearance.=--What is it that, as the engine wears, tends to alter the amount of clearance? 39225 = Checked boiler feed.=--What causes may act to stop the boiler feed? 39225 = Chucking a cross- head.=--How should a cross- head be chucked so as to have its piston rod and wrist pin at a true right angle? 39225 = Cleaning a boiler.=--How often would you clean a boiler? 39225 = Cleaning a boiler.=--What parts of the boiler would you clean before lighting the fire? 39225 = Coal consumption.=--About how much coal is consumed per square foot of grate in marine boilers? 39225 = Cold weather.=--What is liable to happen to an engine that is used out of doors in cold weather? 39225 = Comparing screw threads.=--What is the difference between the common V thread and the United States standard thread? 39225 = Composition of iron and steel.=--What is the difference in the composition of cast iron and steel? 39225 = Compound engine.=--What is a compound engine? 39225 = Condensation in boiler.=--What is likely to happen if the steam condenses in the boiler without any of the cocks being open? 39225 = Condenser tubes.=--How are condenser tubes made tight? 39225 = Condenser.=--What is a surface condenser? 39225 = Condensing engine.=--What is a condensing engine? 39225 = Connecting rods.=--What are the two principal kinds of connecting rods? 39225 = Consumption of steam by diagram.=--How would you calculate the consumption of steam or water of an engine from an indicator diagram? 39225 = Corliss engine valves.=--How many valves does a Corliss engine have? 39225 = Course of water.=--What is the course of the main injection water of a jet condenser? 39225 = Cover joint.=--What is the best form of joint for an engine cylinder cover? 39225 = Crab claw.=--What duty does the latch- link or crab- claw of a Corliss valve gear perform? 39225 = Crank at full power.=--When the crank is at its point of full power, is the piston in the middle of the cylinder? 39225 = Crank pin on dead centre.=--How would you proceed to put an engine crank pin exactly on the dead centre for setting the valve? 39225 = Crank position.=--What is the best position for the crank to be in to start the engine, and why is it the best position? 39225 = Crossed belt.=--What are the objections to a crossed belt? 39225 = Crossed vs. open belt.=--Which will transmit more power, an open or a crossed belt, and why? 39225 = Crowning a pulley.=--What is the object of crowning a pulley? 39225 = Cushioning.=--At what point in the valve travel does cushioning begin? 39225 = Cut- off.=--What is the point of cut- off? 39225 = Dampers at night.=--How should the dampers be left when the fire is banked? 39225 = Dash- pot.=--What is a dash- pot? 39225 = Defining clearance.=--What is the meaning of the wordclearance"as applied to an engine cylinder? |
| 39225 | = Diagram vs. diagram.=--What difference is there between the diagram taken from one end and that taken from the other? |
| 39225 | = Difficult alignment.=--What error in the alignment of the parts of an engine is the most difficult to discover? |
| 39225 | = Direction of movement.=--What are the considerations that determine in which direction the engine should be moved when setting the valve? |
| 39225 | = Dirty gauge glass.=--What should be done to the gauge glass if the feed water is dirty? |
| 39225 | = Disconnecting engine.=--What is a disconnecting paddle engine? |
| 39225 | = Dividing the parts.=--Into what three divisions may the parts of a plain slide- valve engine be divided? |
| 39225 | = Division plates.=--What are division plates in boilers? |
| 39225 | = Donkey engine.=--What is a donkey engine? |
| 39225 | = Double beat.=--What is a double- beat valve? |
| 39225 | = Double- ported valve.=--What is a double- ported valve? |
| 39225 | = Drain cocks.=--What are cylinder drain cocks? |
| 39225 | = Draught while firing.=--How should the draught be regulated while the fire is being cleaned? |
| 39225 | = Driving brasses.=--What will be the effect of driving a brass in and out with a hammer and without a block of wood to strike on? |
| 39225 | = Driving out a key.=--In driving out a key is a quick or a slow hammer blow the most effective? |
| 39225 | = Driving wheel off.=--What if a driving wheel came off? |
| 39225 | = Dry steam.=--What is meant by dry steam? |
| 39225 | = Eccentric and crank motions.=--Does the acting eccentric lead or follow the crank when the link is in full gear? |
| 39225 | = Effect of angularity.=--What effect does the angularity of the connecting rod have on the piston motion? |
| 39225 | = Elements of power.=--What are the three elements composing power? |
| 39225 | = Empty pump.=--What causes a pump to fail? |
| 39225 | = Engine- room cocks and valves.=--What cocks and valves are there in the engine room of a condensing engine? |
| 39225 | = Essentials of slide valve setting.=--What are the two operations essential to the setting of a slide valve? |
| 39225 | = Even boiler injection.=--Can a continuous feed be maintained if injectors are used? |
| 39225 | = Even heat.=--How can an even temperature be kept up in the fire box? |
| 39225 | = Even steam pressure.=--Why should the steam pressure be kept up, and what difference does it make in the consumption of the fuel? |
| 39225 | = Even valve lead.=--Can the valve lead be kept equal when the point of cut- off is varied by shifting the eccentric across the shaft or crank- axle? |
| 39225 | = Excessive lead.=--How is excessive lead shown on a diagram? |
| 39225 | = Exchanging eccentric rods.=--If the forward eccentric rod was to break, could the backward eccentric be utilized to run the engine forward? |
| 39225 | = Expansion curve.=--If the expansion curve is above the true expansion curve, what defect in the engine does that indicate? |
| 39225 | = Expansion fit.=--What is meant by an expansion or a contraction fit, say for an engine crank pin? |
| 39225 | = Expansion joint.=--What is an expansion joint? |
| 39225 | = Expansion valve.=--What is a separate expansion valve? |
| 39225 | = Exposure to cold.=--What parts of an engine are exposed to danger in a cold climate? |
| 39225 | = Face of a cold chisel.=--What is the proper shape for the face of a cold chisel? |
| 39225 | = Feed escape.=--What is a feed relief, or feed escape valve? |
| 39225 | = Finding equal clearance.=--How would you proceed to find if the clearance in the cylinder was equal at each end? |
| 39225 | = Fire at night.=--How would you leave the fire for the night? |
| 39225 | = Fire too hot.=--What would you do if steam was rising too rapidly? |
| 39225 | = Fire tools and their uses.=--What tools are used in cleaning a fire? |
| 39225 | = First coal.=--How soon would you put coal on after the fire is lit? |
| 39225 | = First inspection.=--What part of the boiler would you inspect first? |
| 39225 | = Fit of top brass.=--When a liner is used between the two brasses, what does the fit of the top brass depend upon? |
| 39225 | = Fitting a crank pin.=--How would you proceed to put in by a contraction fit a crank pin, the crank being on the engine? |
| 39225 | = Fitting a flange.=--In fitting a flange to a boiler what part of the flange face should bed most? |
| 39225 | = Fitting a key.=--Should a key be driven lightly or not when fitting it, and why? |
| 39225 | = Fitting a piston ring.=--How tight should a piston ring fit to the cylinder bore? |
| 39225 | = Fitting a pulley.=--If you had a pulley whose bore was 1- 15/16 inches, what diameter of bright shafting would you order for it? |
| 39225 | = Fitting axle- box wedges.=--In what position should the engine be placed when the axle- box wedges are to be adjusted for fit to the pedestals? |
| 39225 | = Fittings.=--What fittings are essential to a marine boiler? |
| 39225 | = Follower.=--What is a piston follower? |
| 39225 | = Force, pressure, and power.=--What is the difference between force or pressure and power? |
| 39225 | = Forging.=--What are the forgeable metals used in engine construction? |
| 39225 | = Forward.=--What is full gear forward? |
| 39225 | = Freezing in the pump.=--How would you prevent the water from freezing in the pump? |
| 39225 | = Freezing oil.=--How would you prevent the oil from freezing? |
| 39225 | = Full gear.=--What is the meaning of the term full gear, with regard to a link motion? |
| 39225 | = Governors.=--What is a throttling governor? |
| 39225 | = Grade of emery.=--About what grade of emery would you use to make a ground joint? |
| 39225 | = Grinding a cover.=--How must a cylinder cover be moved when grinding it? |
| 39225 | = Hammer test.=--What does the"hammer test"consist of? |
| 39225 | = Hand- worked valves.=--What are the valves of a marine engine that are worked by hand? |
| 39225 | = Heat of boiling water.=--What determines the temperature at which water will boil? |
| 39225 | = Heat of steam.=--Can steam be made hotter than the water while they are in contact? |
| 39225 | = Heating of crank- shaft.=--What would you do if the crank- shaft bearings began to heat? |
| 39225 | = Heating.=--What part of the engine is the most likely to get hot from the friction of the fit? |
| 39225 | = Heaviest water.=--At what temperature is water at its greatest density? |
| 39225 | = High percentage joint.=--What is meant by a"high percentage"riveted joint? |
| 39225 | = High- speed engines.=--What is meant by the term high- speed engines? |
| 39225 | = High- speed governor.=--What class of governor is generally used upon high- speed engines? |
| 39225 | = Horizontal heater.=--What advantage does a horizontal heater possess? |
| 39225 | = Horse- power by diagram.=--How do you calculate the horse- power of a steam engine from an indicator diagram? |
| 39225 | = Horse- power.=--What is a horse- power as applied to steam- engine calculations? |
| 39225 | = Horse- power.=--What is the unit or measure of horse- power? |
| 39225 | = Hot axle- box.=--What if an axle- box got hot? |
| 39225 | = Hot crank- pins.=--What are the principal causes of hot crank- pins? |
| 39225 | = Hot feed water.=--What would you do if the feed water got so hot that the pump worked imperfectly or not at all? |
| 39225 | = Hot journals.=--What are the principal causes of the heating of engine journals? |
| 39225 | = Hot piston rod.=--What would you do if the piston rod got hot? |
| 39225 | = Hot well.=--What is a hot well? |
| 39225 | = Hot- well temperature.=--At what temperature is the water in the hot well usually kept? |
| 39225 | = Impermeator.=--What is a steam lubricator or impermeator? |
| 39225 | = Increase of power.=--Can we increase a given amount of power by means of mechanical appliances? |
| 39225 | = Indicator diagram.=--What are the names of the lines of a diagram? |
| 39225 | = Indicator.=--What is a steam- engine indicator? |
| 39225 | = Injector.=--What is an injector? |
| 39225 | = Intercepter.=--What is the separator or intercepter of a marine boiler? |
| 39225 | = Inverted cylinder.=--What is an inverted cylinder engine? |
| 39225 | = Jacketed.=--What is a jacketed cylinder? |
| 39225 | = Joule''s equivalent.=--What is meant by the conversion of heat into work? |
| 39225 | = Key bearing.=--What is the effect upon a wheel if its key bears upon opposite corners? |
| 39225 | = Kindling the fire.=--How long should the wood burn before putting on coal? |
| 39225 | = Kinds of shafting.=--What is the difference between bright and black shafting? |
| 39225 | = Lapped and butt joints.=--How does a lapped joint differ from a butt joint or seam in a boiler? |
| 39225 | = Latent heat.=--Is all the heat in steam or water shown by a thermometer? |
| 39225 | = Laying a fire.=--How would you lay the fire? |
| 39225 | = Lead affected by wear.=--How does the wear of the parts affect the lead in vertical engines? |
| 39225 | = Leaky check valve.=--What damage may a leaky check valve do, and how would you prevent it? |
| 39225 | = Leaky plug.=--How would you test the fit of a leaky plug in a cock? |
| 39225 | = Leaky throttle valve.=--What damage might a leaky throttle valve do, and how would you prevent it? |
| 39225 | = Least examination.=--What would constitute the least permissible examination of an engine, with a due regard to safety? |
| 39225 | = Length of drill edges.=--Why should both edges of a drill be exactly equal in length and of equal angle? |
| 39225 | = Length of eccentric rod.=--What determines the length of the eccentric rods when setting the slide valve? |
| 39225 | = Link gear and eccentric.=--Does a link motion when in full gear operate the valve much different to what a simple eccentric motion would do? |
| 39225 | = Link motion.=--What is a link motion? |
| 39225 | = Link position.=--Where should the link be when starting the engine? |
| 39225 | = Live steam period.=--What constitutes the live steam period of a position? |
| 39225 | = Locating a pound.=--How may the location of a pound be discovered? |
| 39225 | = Locating collars.=--What is the best location for the collars that prevent end motion on a line shaft? |
| 39225 | = Locating the air chamber.=--When should the air chamber be placed on a pump, and what is its use? |
| 39225 | = Low water.=--What would you do if the water got dangerously low in the boiler? |
| 39225 | = Margin for holes.=--How would you find the proper distance the rivet holes should be from the edge of the plate in a boiler seam? |
| 39225 | = Marine engine pipes.=--What are the principal pipes of a marine engine and boiler? |
| 39225 | = Marine engine.=--What forms of engine are used for marine purposes? |
| 39225 | = Metal expansion.=--What metals used in engine construction expand by heat, and what allowances are made in the construction on this account? |
| 39225 | = Mud box.=--What is a mud box? |
| 39225 | = Natural supply of water.=--What precaution would you take when feed water is drawn from a stream, or other natural source of supply? |
| 39225 | = Oil cup.=--What is an oil cup? |
| 39225 | = Oiling guide bars.=--Which guide- bar is the most difficult to oil, the top or the bottom one? |
| 39225 | = Oiling.=--In oiling the engine, what precaution would you take to prevent the journals from heating? |
| 39225 | = Oiling.=--What points require examination when oiling the engine? |
| 39225 | = Opening a banked fire.=--What is the first thing to do in starting up a banked fire? |
| 39225 | = Order of examination.=--In what order should a thorough examination of the engine be made? |
| 39225 | = Originating a true plane.=--How is a true plane or flat surface originated? |
| 39225 | = Packing a stuffing box.=--About how full of packing would you fill a stuffing box for a piston gland? |
| 39225 | = Paddle- wheel construction.=--What is the construction of a common paddle wheel? |
| 39225 | = Parts classified.=--What parts of a marine engine are generally made of wrought iron, of cast iron, of brass, and what of steel? |
| 39225 | = Parts of valve motion.=--What parts constitute the valve motion or valve gear? |
| 39225 | = Patching a break.=--In patching a broken beam or frame, how may the bolts be made to serve to act as keys closing the crack? |
| 39225 | = Pet cock.=--What is the difference between a cylinder pet cock and a cylinder relief valve? |
| 39225 | = Pet cock.=--Why are bucket pumps provided with a valve or pet cock? |
| 39225 | = Pipes to the sea.=--What are the pipes that lead from or go to the sea? |
| 39225 | = Piston motion irregular.=--What causes the piston to have irregular motion? |
| 39225 | = Placing a belt tightener.=--Should a belt tightener be placed on the tight or slack side of a belt? |
| 39225 | = Placing the piston- ring split.=--At what part of the cylinder bore should the split of a piston ring be placed? |
| 39225 | = Point of cut- off.=--What determines the point of cut- off in a Corliss engine, and how does it do so? |
| 39225 | = Pounding journals.=--What are the two principal causes of the beating or pounding of the journals of an engine? |
| 39225 | = Pressure test.=--At what pressure should a new boiler be tested? |
| 39225 | = Preventing freezing.=--What precautions are necessary to prevent the engine from freezing in cold climates? |
| 39225 | = Preventing scale.=--What are the principal methods employed to prevent the formation of scale in the boiler? |
| 39225 | = Priming.=--What is the priming or foaming of the water in a boiler? |
| 39225 | = Propeller fastening.=--How are screw propellers fastened to their shafts? |
| 39225 | = Propeller pitch.=--What is the pitch of a propeller? |
| 39225 | = Propeller thread.=--Where is the thread of a screw propeller measured? |
| 39225 | = Pulley balance.=--Why should a pulley be balanced? |
| 39225 | = Pump valves.=--What is the check valve of a pump? |
| 39225 | = Pumps.=--Into what classes may pumps be divided? |
| 39225 | = Quick combustion.=--Does bituminous( soft) or anthracite( hard) coal light more easily? |
| 39225 | = Quick steam admission.=--Which gives the quickest steam admission, a long and narrow or a wide and short steam port, both having the same area? |
| 39225 | = Quick steaming.=--Can steam be made quickest with a large or with a small quantity of water in the boiler? |
| 39225 | = Racing.=--What is meant by the racing of an engine? |
| 39225 | = Rapid wasting.=--Where does the most rapid wasting occur in marine boilers? |
| 39225 | = Receiver.=--What is a receiver? |
| 39225 | = Regulating a pump.=--How can a pump be regulated so as to be kept pumping without surcharging the boiler? |
| 39225 | = Regulating a pump.=--How can the quantity of water a pump will deliver be regulated? |
| 39225 | = Regulating boiler feed.=--How would you regulate the boiler feed? |
| 39225 | = Regulating dampers.=--How would you regulate the dampers when letting the fire out? |
| 39225 | = Release and compression.=--What are the points of release and of compression? |
| 39225 | = Releasing valve governor.=--What kinds of governors do engines with releasing valves have? |
| 39225 | = Reliability of gauge glass.=--Is a gauge glass always reliable for showing the height of the water in the boiler? |
| 39225 | = Relief valves.=--What are cylinder relief valves used for? |
| 39225 | = Removing scale.=--How is scale removed in boilers? |
| 39225 | = Reversing an engine.=--What is the ordinary means provided for reversing an engine? |
| 39225 | = Riveting a crank pin.=--For riveting a crank pin what shape should the pene or pane of the hammer be? |
| 39225 | = Rust joint.=--How are rust joints made? |
| 39225 | = Safety valve at night.=--How would you set the safety valve for a banked fire? |
| 39225 | = Safety valves.=--What is a dead- weight safety valve? |
| 39225 | = Salinometer.=--What is a salinometer? |
| 39225 | = Salt in sea water.=--About how much salt does sea water contain? |
| 39225 | = Scale.=--What causes scale to form in the boiler and what effect does scale have on the boiler? |
| 39225 | = Scum cocks.=--How many scum cocks are used in a marine boiler? |
| 39225 | = Sensible heat.=--What is the sensible heat of steam? |
| 39225 | = Set of slide valve.=--How would you test whether the slide valve was set properly? |
| 39225 | = Setting a portable engine.=--How should a portable engine stand when it is at work, and why should it stand so? |
| 39225 | = Setting a slide valve.=--In what position would you place the link motion when the slide valve is to be set? |
| 39225 | = Setting a slide valve.=--What are the three objects, either of which a slide valve may be so set as to accomplish? |
| 39225 | = Setting an Allen valve.=--What difference is there between setting a common slide valve and another( an Allen) valve? |
| 39225 | = Setting eccentrics.=--What tools are used to set eccentrics upon shafts before the shafts are upon the engine? |
| 39225 | = Setting guide bars.=--Describe roughly the method employed to set guide bars by means of a stretched line or cord? |
| 39225 | = Shaft couplings.=--What four objects should the couplings for line shafts accomplish? |
| 39225 | = Shaking grate.=--What is the advantage possessed by shaking grate bars? |
| 39225 | = Shearing strain.=--What is meant by the terms, shearing, tearing and crushing strains of a steam boiler? |
| 39225 | = Ship''s side discharge.=--What is a ship''s side air pump discharge valve? |
| 39225 | = Short of coal at sea.=--If at sea and short of coal, what course would you pursue in order to save coal and get into port? |
| 39225 | = Shortening a round belt.=--Can a round twisted belt be shortened without removing either the hook or the eye and how? |
| 39225 | = Single and double shear.=--What is meant by a rivet being in single shear or double shear? |
| 39225 | = Siphon.=--What is a siphon or worsted? |
| 39225 | = Slide valve for link motion.=--What are the two operations to be performed in setting the slide valve of an engine having a link motion? |
| 39225 | = Slipping eccentric.=--What if an eccentric slipped? |
| 39225 | = Sluice valves.=--What are sluice valves in steamships? |
| 39225 | = Spacing rows Of rivets.=--How would you find the distance apart for the rows of rivet holes in a double riveted joint? |
| 39225 | = Special examination.=--What parts would you pay special attention to in examining the boiler after cleaning it? |
| 39225 | = Speed of pumping.=--What is the highest speed at which a pump should run? |
| 39225 | = Speed vs. power.=--Is a gain in speed a loss in power? |
| 39225 | = Split tube.=--How is a split tube stopped up? |
| 39225 | = Squaring a valve.=--Is it proper to square a plain slide valve? |
| 39225 | = Squaring a valve.=--Why is the common process of squaring the valve an improper proceeding? |
| 39225 | = Starting bar.=--What is a starting bar, and what is it used for? |
| 39225 | = Starting.=--How would you proceed to start a plain slide valve? |
| 39225 | = Stays.=--What is a boiler stay? |
| 39225 | = Steam gauges.=--What is a gauge glass or water- gauge glass? |
| 39225 | = Steam line.=--What would a fall in the steam line of a diagram indicate? |
| 39225 | = Strain on boiler joint.=--How would you calculate the amount of stress there is upon the riveted joint of a boiler? |
| 39225 | = Stress per square inch.=--How much stress is usually allowed per sectional square inch of boiler stay? |
| 39225 | = Stronger side of belts.=--Which is the stronger side of leather, the smooth or grain side or the rough or flesh side? |
| 39225 | = Stuck valve.=--How may a stuck valve or a check valve be released? |
| 39225 | = Superheater.=--What is the superheater of a marine boiler? |
| 39225 | = Surface condensing.=--What are the advantages of surface condensing? |
| 39225 | = Taking a lead.=--How would you take a lead for adjusting the fit of a bearing to its journal? |
| 39225 | = Taking charge of a boiler.=--What is the first thing you would do in taking charge of a boiler? |
| 39225 | = Taking charge.=--What is the first thing you would do in taking charge of an engine? |
| 39225 | = Teeth of gear wheels.=--What is the difference between an epicycloidal tooth and an involute tooth of a gear wheel? |
| 39225 | = Tempering.=--How is steel tempered? |
| 39225 | = Test cocks.=--What do the three boiler test cocks show? |
| 39225 | = Testing alignment.=--What are the tests that should be made to find out what part of an engine is out of line? |
| 39225 | = Testing belts.=--What appearance in leather belting indicates that it was cut from the spongy shoulder? |
| 39225 | = Testing gauge glass.=--What would you do to find out if the gauge glass was showing the correct water level? |
| 39225 | = Testing steam tightness.=--How would you test the steam tightness of a piston? |
| 39225 | = Thawing oil.=--How would you thaw frozen oil? |
| 39225 | = The driving parts.=--What parts constitute the driving or power- transmitting mechanism? |
| 39225 | = The throw.=--What is the throw of an eccentric? |
| 39225 | = Thermal unit.=--What is the heat unit or thermal unit? |
| 39225 | = Third use Of link motion.=--What does a link motion accomplish besides enabling the engine to run in either direction? |
| 39225 | = Thorough examination.=--What would constitute a complete examination of a plain slide- valve engine? |
| 39225 | = Thrust bearing.=--What is a thrust bearing? |
| 39225 | = Tire off.=--What if a wheel tire came off? |
| 39225 | = Tongue weld.=--What are the shapes of the two pieces that come together in a tongue weld? |
| 39225 | = Top cylinders.=--What are the small cylinders on top of the steam chests used for? |
| 39225 | = Total condenser pressure.=--How would you find the total pressure in a condenser? |
| 39225 | = Total heat.=--What is the total heat of steam? |
| 39225 | = Triple expansion.=--What is a triple- expansion engine? |
| 39225 | = Uniform paddle- wheel revolution.=--How may the speed of revolution of single crank paddle- wheels be made uniform? |
| 39225 | = Universal joint.=--What object does a universal joint accomplish? |
| 39225 | = Uptake.=--What is the uptake of a marine boiler? |
| 39225 | = Use of Babbitt.=--What is Babbitt metal or white metal used for? |
| 39225 | = Use of Muntz.=--What is Muntz metal used for? |
| 39225 | = Use of air chamber.=--What is an air vessel or air chamber used on a pump for? |
| 39225 | = Use of lead.=--What is a lead used for in adjusting the fit of a brass to its journal? |
| 39225 | = Using tallow.=--Where would you place tallow in oiling the engine, and for what purpose would you use it? |
| 39225 | = Using two set screws.=--When two set screws are placed in a hub how should they be located? |
| 39225 | = Vacuum gauge.=--What is a vacuum gauge? |
| 39225 | = Valve closing.=--What closes the valve in a Corliss engine? |
| 39225 | = Valve gear.=--What is a releasing valve gear? |
| 39225 | = Valve lap.=--What is the lap of a valve? |
| 39225 | = Valve lead by diagram.=--How would insufficient valve lead be shown on a diagram? |
| 39225 | = Valve lead.=--What is the lead of valve? |
| 39225 | = Valve trip.=--What means are employed in a Corliss engine to trip the admission valve? |
| 39225 | = Valves.=--What is a griddle valve? |
| 39225 | = Varying the cut- off.=--What is the usual method of varying the point of cut- off on high- speed engines? |
| 39225 | = Washing and scaling.=--What determines the periods at which a boiler should be washed out and scaled? |
| 39225 | = Water falling.=--What would you suppose was going wrong if the pump was kept going and the water still fell in the boiler? |
| 39225 | = Water supply at night.=--How much water would you have in a boiler when leaving it for all night? |
| 39225 | = Water supply.=--How much water should there be in the boiler when the fire is lit? |
| 39225 | = Wear of brasses.=--When an engineer is taking up the wear of connecting rod brasses, what must he do to keep the rod of the proper length? |
| 39225 | = Wearing down.=--What is the defect induced by letting the parts of an engine wear down to a bearing? |
| 39225 | = Weight of steam.=--Is there any difference between the weight of water and that of the steam it will evaporate into? |
| 39225 | = Welding.=--What is welding? |
| 39225 | = Well- ground plug.=--What is the appearance of a well- ground plug? |
| 39225 | = Wide belt.=--How would you get a very wide belt on a pulley? |
| 39225 | = Working expansively.=--What causes the steam to be worked expansively in an engine cylinder? |
| 39225 | A body has six sides, each side measuring an inch in length, what is its diameter across corners? |
| 39225 | A hexagon measures 2 inches across the flats, what is its diameter measured across the corners? |
| 39225 | And what is the use of each? |
| 39225 | At what number of revolutions per minute should this governor be driven? |
| 39225 | At what speed should a running balance be made? |
| 39225 | Can blowing off at the safety valve cause priming? |
| 39225 | Example.--A shaft is 6 inches in diameter, what should be the cross section dimensions of its key diameter of shaft? |
| 39225 | Example.--What is the chord pitch of a wheel having 12 teeth and a diameter( at pitch circle) of 8 inches? |
| 39225 | Example.--What is the diameter at the root of a sharp[ V]-thread of 8 pitch, and measuring 1 inch diameter at the top of the thread? |
| 39225 | Example.--What is the diametral pitch of a wheel whose arc pitch is 1- 1/2 inches? |
| 39225 | Example.--What is the number of teeth in a wheel whose pitch diameter is 42 inches, and pitch is 2- 1/2 inches? |
| 39225 | Example.--What is the pitch diameter of a wheel with 128 teeth, 1- 1/2 inches pitch? |
| 39225 | Example.--What is the pitch of a wheel with 148 teeth, the pitch diameter being 72"? |
| 39225 | Example: the static stress upon a pulley, 24 inches diameter, is 100 lbs., what static torsion does it exert upon the shaft? |
| 39225 | Examples.--Given a 5 diametral pitch; what is the arc pitch? |
| 39225 | For example: A lathe has single gear, and its lead screw pitch is 8 per inch, what wheels will cut 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, or 13 threads per inch? |
| 39225 | Grant to the respective questions:--"Do the taps that shorten most in length increase the most in diameter?" |
| 39225 | H. propeller.=--What is a left- hand propeller? |
| 39225 | How are boiler test cocks cleaned? |
| 39225 | How are surface condensers cleaned out? |
| 39225 | How can priming be detected? |
| 39225 | How deep would you make the first layer of coal? |
| 39225 | How high can a pump lift water, or cause it to lift or rise? |
| 39225 | How is the point of cut- off varied when a cut- off valve is used? |
| 39225 | How low should the pressure get before the water is let out? |
| 39225 | How many times a day should the gauge be blown out? |
| 39225 | How would you calculate the horse- power of a steam engine? |
| 39225 | If so, how? |
| 39225 | If the expansion curve falls too low, what does it indicate? |
| 39225 | In such a case how would you regulate the dampers? |
| 39225 | In what order should such an examination be made? |
| 39225 | Is it merely the mechanical preventing of contact between molecules, by the interposition of substances? |
| 39225 | Is it nearer to the crank- end or the head- end of the cylinder? |
| 39225 | Is steam a perfect gas? |
| 39225 | Is this effect increased or diminished by shortening the connecting rod? |
| 39225 | Safety valve defect.--To what defect is a safety valve most liable? |
| 39225 | Suppose that A has 40 teeth, while B has 20 teeth, and that the link C is rotated once around the axis of A, how many revolutions will B make? |
| 39225 | Suppose the 120 wheel to make 6- 66/100 revolutions per minute, how many will the 40 wheel make? |
| 39225 | The distance between the wheel centres is 32- 1/2 inches; what are the radii of the respective pitch circles? |
| 39225 | Then how does it sometimes occur that the more irons are heated the worse they weld? |
| 39225 | Thus, how many teeth in a wheel 36 inches diameter and of 3 diametral pitch? |
| 39225 | What are other causes of priming? |
| 39225 | What are the known causes of priming? |
| 39225 | What are the principal forms of automatic cut- off engines? |
| 39225 | What do you consider dangerously low? |
| 39225 | What enables the dash- pot of a Corliss engine to work noiselessly? |
| 39225 | What fittings are necessary for a bilge injection? |
| 39225 | What impairs or prevents welding? |
| 39225 | What is Joule''s equivalent? |
| 39225 | What is a Bourdon dial gauge? |
| 39225 | What is a balanced valve? |
| 39225 | What is a dancing governor? |
| 39225 | What is a double- acting pump? |
| 39225 | What is a feathering paddle wheel? |
| 39225 | What is a force pump? |
| 39225 | What is a gusset stay? |
| 39225 | What is a link motion used for? |
| 39225 | What is a lock- up safety valve? |
| 39225 | What is a mercury vacuum gauge? |
| 39225 | What is a piston air pump? |
| 39225 | What is a piston pump? |
| 39225 | What is a plunger air pump? |
| 39225 | What is a positive valve gear? |
| 39225 | What is a radial paddle wheel? |
| 39225 | What is a running and what a standing balance for a pulley? |
| 39225 | What is a single- acting pump? |
| 39225 | What is a spring- loaded safety valve? |
| 39225 | What is a trunk air pump? |
| 39225 | What is a tube stay or a stay tube? |
| 39225 | What is a wet uptake? |
| 39225 | What is an isochronal governor? |
| 39225 | What is blowing down a boiler? |
| 39225 | What is meant by the angularity of a connecting rod? |
| 39225 | What is superheated steam? |
| 39225 | What is the consequence if a pump runs too fast? |
| 39225 | What is the course of the main circulating water of a surface condenser? |
| 39225 | What is the diametral pitch? |
| 39225 | What is the foot valve of a pump? |
| 39225 | What is the greatest pressure of steam the valve will hold, leaving the weight of the valve and of the lever out of the question? |
| 39225 | What is the latent heat of steam? |
| 39225 | What is the latent heat of water? |
| 39225 | What is the meaning of nominal horse- power? |
| 39225 | What is the mechanical equivalent of heat? |
| 39225 | What is the setting number for the smallest wheel? |
| 39225 | What is the weight of a cubic foot of water when at its maximum density? |
| 39225 | What parts of an engine are usually case- hardened? |
| 39225 | What parts of the engine would you attend to if the boiler primes? |
| 39225 | What pipes connect to a donkey engine, and what are their uses? |
| 39225 | What pressure is shown by a boiler steam gauge? |
| 39225 | What system can we adopt that will enable workmen of limited capacity to do work that will be practically accurate? |
| 39225 | What would be the result if the boiler was blown off under a high pressure? |
| 39225 | What would you do after the water is all out of the boiler? |
| 39225 | What would you do to prevent priming? |
| 39225 | What would you do to stop priming? |
| 39225 | What, then, is the measurement between the outside edges of the jaws? |
| 39225 | When is a trunk air pump necessary? |
| 39225 | Why is a theoretical diagram not correct? |
| 39225 | Why is it necessary to keep an even temperature in the fire box? |
| 39225 | Why is priming wasteful? |
| 39225 | Why is this adjustment important? |
| 39225 | _ Examples._--The barometer stands at 29.5 and the vacuum gauge at 26, what is the absolute pressure in the condenser? |
| 39225 | per square inch? |
| 39225 | per square inch? |
| 39225 | weight is 30 inches from the fulcrum, what pressure will the valve hold? |
| 39225 | will it bear before breaking? |
| 39225 | |.05(?) |