Compressed Air: Its Production Uses and Applications (Paperback)

Description

Originally published in 1903 this book was described by its publisher —the Scientific American magazine— as comprising the physical properties of air from a vacuum to its liquid state its thermodynamics compression transmission and uses as a motive power in the operation of stationary and portable machinery in mining air tools air lifts pumping of water acids and oils; the air blast for cleaning and painting the sand blast and its work and the numerous appliances in which compressed air is a most convenient and economical transmitter of power for mechanical work railway propulsion refrigeration and the various uses to which compressed air has been applied; with forty air tables and five hundred and forty-five illustrations. Gardner D. Hiscox M.E. was also the author of Mechanical Movements Powers Devices and Appliances Gas Gasoline and Oil Engines and Horseless Vehicles Automobiles amongst other books.