Note 76 — Chapter VI · THE ATMOSPHERIC SYSTEM. A.D. 1840—1848. ÆTATIS 35—43.
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No dynamometer was used in these experiments, but all other requisite data were recorded with the greatest exactness, and the horse-power employed may be deduced by means of the scale of resistance which the subsequent dynamomotric trials supply. Moreover, the result above arrived at for the consumption of coke is verified by an examination of published indicator diagrams taken off the same engine on another occasion.