The Automatic Control of Combustion: Mercury Actuates the Carrick Master Control. Catalog Number 99
Carrick Engineering Company
From Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 04 June 2001
From Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 04 June 2001
About this Item
A vintage softcover trade catalog by the Carrick Engineering Company, 32 pages. Saddle-stapled binding. Bound in brown paper wraps with title, company name and catalog information at front cover; company name and illustration at rear cover. Printed in black and red on thick, slick paper. Includes many black,white and red illustrations, diagrams and graphs throughout. This catalog presents power plant boiler control systems that use mercury as an "actuating medium." It includes a descriptive section on "The Carrick Master Control," which discusses the benefits of mercury as an actuating medium, "The Mercury U-Tube Principle," "Operation of Carrick Master Control," "The Four-Way Hydraulic Valve," and "The Floating Valve Gear." This section also includes graphs showing the "Comparative Performance of Automatic Control" which should increase the economy of boiler regulation. The catalog also has sections on "Centralized and Individual Control of Boilers with Carrick Auxiliary Control Sets," "Carrick Auxiliary Controls," "Carrick Combustion Indicator," "The Carrick Furnace Regulator," the "Carrick Adjustable Chronometer Valve," "Gasometer Control Type H-P For Relatively High Gas or Air Pressure," and "Automatic Governor Control of Stoker Engines," among many others. Each of these sections includes a description and an illustration. A complete collection of devices used to automatically control boilers in power plants by the Carrick Engineering Company. There is a "JNO. D. Hiles Co." stamp to the center of the front cover of this catalog. Some scattered lead pencil markings and figures to several pages, as well as a lead pencil line to the front cover and numbers written in lead pencil to the upper left corner of the rear cover. Otherwise, pages and covers are clean and free of writing. Binding is tight and strong with no loose pages. Seller Inventory # Fred-Trade178
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Automatic Control of Combustion: Mercury...
Publisher: Carrick Engineering Company
Publication Date: 1925
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good
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