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Search - Compressed Air: Its Production, Uses, and Applications (Classic Reprint)

Compressed Air Its Production Uses and Applications - Classic Reprint
Author: Gardner D. Hiscox

Excerpt from Compressed Air: Its Production, Uses, and Applications — The progress made in widening the use of compressed air as well as cheapening its production by new inventions and new sources of power and transmission since the issue of the first edition has induced the author to add more matter in which some of the later appliances and meth... more »ods of use are described.

The growing importance of the use of compressed air in deep mining, tunnel work, and in the industries has made it a standard element for the transmission of power.

The fast extending use of the explosive motor as a source of power for operating portable air compressors has solved a serious problem by localizing the power, the compressor, and the air-drill or riveter in the erection of the sky-scraper frames and in steel-bridge building.

The further improvements in the methods and in the machinery for compressing air appear to be in the refinement of design and construction, rather than in any new ideals. The increasing use of the various compressed-air systems for water supply has been in a great measure due to the economy of the explosive motor as a power for compressing air for all purposes, which has given this form of power a decided preference for small and portable units and is fast extending its usefulness through the increasing power of explosive motor units now being built.

The operation of forging hammers, from the smallest to the largest size, has received a great increase in its usefulness by the substitution of compressed air for the discomforting element of steam.

In the torpedo service compressed air has become a standard element of control in the submarine boats for ventilation, buoyancy, and vertical direction of steerage; it gives life to the adjuncts of marine warfare.

Air compression at high altitudes has been fully discussed in the new edition, and new tables of its conditions and volumes added.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

ISBN-13: 9781330360972
ISBN-10: 1330360974
Publication Date: 6/25/2015
Pages: 686
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Book Type: Paperback
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