cross-compound
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Photo: Roy AttawayWilliams' charge is an authentic steamboat with a 2,000-hp cross-compound steam engine driving a 28-foot-diameter paddle wheel.
From Time Magazine Archive
Q. How many cylinders have the cross-compound compressor?
From The Traveling Engineers' Association To Improve The Locomotive Engine Service of American Railroads by Anonymous
Four straight-line compressors and one cross-compound Corliss compressor were installed, the steam being supplied by three Stirling boilers.
From Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad The Terminal Station - West by Benjamin Franklin Cresson
In the case of a cross-compound engine, a receiver is always used.
From Steam Engines Machinery's Reference Series, Number 70 by Anonymous
The case about to be described concerns a steam plant in which there were seven cross-compound condensing Corliss engines, and two Curtis steam turbines.
From Steam Turbines A Book of Instruction for the Adjustment and Operation of the Principal Types of this Class of Prime Movers by Hubert E. (Hubert Edwin) Collins
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