IN a recent review of "The 1939 Callendar Steam Tables" 1, Dr. H. Heywood concludes by saying that "these tables . . . should meet the requirements for many years of engineers concerned with the ...

THE successful design of improved steam power-cycles utilizing high pressures and temperatures depends entirely on an accurate knowledge of the properties of steam. An increase in the efficiency of ...

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character, Vol. 120, No. 785 (Sep. 1, 1928), pp. 460-472 (13 pages) ...