Thermodynamics of the Steam Engine and Other Heat-Engines (Classic Reprint)
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This work is designed to give instruction to students in technical schools in the methods and results pi the application of thermodynamics to engineering. While it has been consid ered desirable to f ollow commonly accepted methods, some parts differ from other text-books, either in substance or in manner of presentation, and may require a few words of explanation.
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Graphical methods are used throughout, in the body of the book, both for demonstration of principles and for design of gear. In an appendix analytical demonstrations are given of certain principles that cannot be treated in a complete and satisfactory manner by construction only. Zenner's valve-diagram is used because it is widely and favorably known and appears to the author to be at least as good as any other circular diagram.
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Notes on Steam Boilers: Prepared for the Use of Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Classic Reprint)
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These notes on Steam Boilers have been prepared for the use of students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They repre sent part of the course of instruction in steam engineering, which makes a study of valve gears, the steam-engine indicator, thermodynamics, steam engines, and steam boilers, and which is accompanied by a course.
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Cecil Hobart Peabody was born on August 9, 1855 in Burlington, Chittenden County, Vermont, United States. He was the second of the four children and first of the two sons of Selim Hobart Peabody and Mary Elizabeth (Pangborn) Peabody. His father was a professor of mechanical engineering and physics, and for ten years president of the University of Illinois.
Education
Cecil Hobart Peabody entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1874 and three years later graduated with the degree of bachelor of science.
Career
Cecil Hobart Peabody was professor of mathematics in the Imperial Agricultural College, Sapporo, Japan, 1878 - 1881, then an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, University of Illinois, 1881 - 1883, an instructor and assistant professor of applied mechanics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1884 - 1885, and successively assistant and associate professor of steam engineering, 1885-93. During his first decade at the Institute his chief scientific interest was thermodynamics, on which subject his early publications were Tables of the Properties of Saturated Steam and Other Vapors (1888), Thermodynamics of the Steam Engine and Other Heat Engines (1889), Valve-Gears for Steam-Engines (1892), and Steam-Boilers (1897), of which Edward F. Miller was coauthor. His Thermodynamics of the Steam Engine, several times revised and enlarged, a pioneer in its field, was for many years a standard work. More than twenty thousand copies of his Tables were sold. He also devised and developed the throttling calorimeter for determining the quality of saturated steam.
From 1892 to 1895 Cecil Hobart Peabody was president of the board of life-saving appliances, United States Life-Saving Service. In 1893 Peabody organized at the Institute the department of naval architecture and marine engineering, of which he became the head, with the rank of professor. Instruction, more advanced than was then usual in the United States, was given in naval architecture and naval architectural drawing for two years, and in marine engineering for one year. Peabody utilized his travels in Europe to collect books, drawings, and photographs for a library on his specialty. Lacking good textbooks, he developed a complete text on naval architecture, based largely on English and French methods, and one on marine engineering, with special emphasis on the reciprocating engine. His Naval Architecture was first published in 1904 (4th edition, 1917) and was widely used both in the United States and other countries.
In 1901, at his suggestion, a course for naval constructors was added. There was also introduced a course on the marine steam turbine, 1908; and a graduate course in aeronautical engineering, 1914. Among Peabody's later books were Computations for Marine Engines (1908), Thermodynamics of the Steam Turbine (1911), and Propellers (1912). The First World War greatly expanded his work by the addition of new and advanced courses in aeronautics and naval architecture, and intensive courses designed to develop inspectors, ship draftsmen, and naval officers. Ambitious for his country, Peabody, over a period of years, promoted a plan to make the United States the leading naval power in the world, to secure her carrying trade for her own vessels, and to reëstablish the reputation her merchant marine possessed in the era of clipper ships.
In 1915 the Emperor of Japan conferred on Cecil Hobart Peabody the Order of the Rising Sun, Third Class, in recognition of the opportunities provided by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to Japanese officers of the navy, professors, and students.
In 1920 Peabody retired as professor emeritus in naval architecture and engineering. He died after a short illness from pneumonia on May 4, 1934 at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, in which city he made his home.
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Membership
Cecil Hobart Peabody was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. On the organization of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers in 1893, Peabody became a member, and later served on its council and as vice-president. He took an active interest in its affairs and presented numerous papers at its meetings.
Interests
As a hobby, Cecil Hobart Peabody studied art-glass design, and after his retirement, watercolor painting, in which he became proficient.
Connections
On June 4, 1885, Cecil Hobart Peabody was married to Sarah Angeline Knight. They had no children.