Handbook of the SteamEngine Author:John Bourne Subtitle: Containing All the Rules Required for the Right Construction and Management of Engines of Every Class...constituting a Key to the 'catechism of the Steam-Engine' General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1865 Original Publisher: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green Subjects: Steam-engines Notes: This i... more »s a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: As a square foot contains 144 square inches, we must, in ascertaining the number of square feet in any given number of square inches, divide by the number 144, and as a cubic foot contains 1728 cubic inches, we must, in ascertaining what number of cubic feet there are in any number of cubic inches, divide by the number 1728. So also there are 9 square feet in a square yard, and 27 cubic feet in a cubic yard. A cubic foot contains very nearly 2200 cylindric inches or solid cylinders 1 inch in diameter and 1 inch high ; 3300 spherical inches or balls 1 inch diameter; and 6600 conical inches or cones 1 inch diameter and 1 inch high. ON THE RESOLUTION OF FRACTIONS INTO INFINITE SERIES. We have already explained that in decimal fractions the decrease at every successive figure is ten times, just as in common numbers the increase at every successive number is ten times. Thus the number 666 means 600 + 60 + 6, so that the first figure by virtue of its position alone is ten times greater than the second, and the second by virtue of its position alone is ten times greater than the third. Precisely the same lawholds when we descend below unity, as we do in every case in winch the decimal point is introduced, as the meaning of the decimal point is, that all the numbers to the right of it are less than unity, and that theydiminish ten times at each successi...« less