Raising Steam: (Discworld novel 40) (Discworld Novels)

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By this time the engineers whose station is in the reciprocating engineroom will have engaged the steam turning gear on both engines, and are oiling round the main, connecting and crosshead bearings and guides, as well as starting the forced lube oil pumps (steam driven of course) for the main bearings. Titanic’s engines are open crankcase, so oil is also directed to oil pots by skilled oilers when the engine is running. The cylinder oil pots are also filled and set up to admit cylinder oil in a controlled amount. After turning the engine, the turning gear is taken out to avoid damage when the engine starts. We’ll watch what they are doing to get the main engines ready for sea, and give a hand where necessary. Condensate from the bottom well of the condensers is pumped via the waterside of the dual pumps into the feed tanks on the forward bulkhead of the condenser room. From there it drains to the hotwell tanks either side in the forward engine room.

Raising Steam: (Discworld novel 40) (Discworld Novels) Raising Steam: (Discworld novel 40) (Discworld Novels)

The wizards of Unseen University go for a ride on Iron Girder, in part to declare her nonmagical. Rincewind is also mentioned, in a footnote. Fantastical Social Services: Moist's modernisation of Ankh-Morpork's public infrastructure continues into the creation of a city railway. The aristocrats, if such they could be called, generally hated the whole concept of the train on the basis that it would encourage the lower classes to move about and not always be available."Charlie makes an appearance to fill in for Vetinari while he goes undercover on Iron Girder as "Stoker Blake". Some criticised it for this but with the benefit of hindsight, it seems clear to me that Pratchett intended the novel as a way to say goodbye to his creations. One that married the magical to the technological. I would imagine the forthcoming The Shepherds Crown will be his way of saying farewell to the Witches of Lancre, with Weatherwax, Ogg and Aching hived off into a different part of the Discworld. Crystal Dragon Jesus: Tak is turned into this for the purposes of the plot, as the rogue Grags use him as justification for their crimes. That this is a massive misrepresentation according to all the other dwarves just adds to the analogy. In modern ships, the 2nd Engineer takes the 4-8, the 3rd Engineer the 12-4 and the Chief Engineer the 8-12, though his watch is delegated by him to the 4th Engineer as it is within normal daylight hours.

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For example, when I first read Unseen Academicals, I found myself thinking, "Oh no. This obviously isn't as good as his other work...." But when I read it a second time, years later, I thought it was a perfectly fine example of his writing.The boiler room is starting to smell of smoke and sulphurous products of combustion – rather nice to steam engineers like us. It’s getting quite warm in here, so we’ll stay until the pressure gauge starts to move. First though we will climb up the ladders to the top of the boilers and open the stop valves in Boiler Room 1. This will allow a passage from the boilers to the main bulkhead stop valves on the watertight bulkhead aft of us, and allow us to bring up the lines to temperature by draining them in this space. From the drawing in Figure 3 you will see that the boilers in this room can feed through the bulkhead stops and thence to the emergency dynamos (magenta line), and can also feed the main generating sets via the green lines. This means that we can get both emergency and main generating sets going on just the boilers in this No 1 Boiler Room. For main propulsion we will need more, which will be started up later.

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Far Beyond Reality [11] was more critical and found the writing "not as crisp as it used to be" and the characters "starting to blend together". Ancient Tradition: Perhaps. Rather mysteriously, Lu-Tze meets up with Ridcully, and after mentioning that the History Monks aren't sure about the railway, says that the rest of "the circle" is. Whether this indicates that the Almighty Janitor and the first amongst wizards are part of some hidden group guiding Discworld history on a level even Lord Vetinari doesn't suspect will, sadly, never be known. The modern world is not easy, as the Low King (actually a queen, in another illustration of progress) realises. In deflecting the coup against her, she notes how bloodshed will be required to lance the boil:Brain Bleach: Moist requires some after accidentally considering the possibility that goblin women have breast milk.

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Busman's Holiday: At the end Vimes cites this as a reason not to go on another family vacation. His wife just thinks the inevitable crime will keep him entertained. Shown Their Work: Pratchett puts in a fair bit of detail about how the railway and steam engines work.

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Now that the steam and feed system is up and running, we can extract the energy from the main dynamo engine exhaust by redirecting the steam to the surface shell-and-tube feed water heater shell, through the tubes of which the feedwater from the hotwell tank passes via the hotwell pumps on its way to the main feed pumps. This imparts heat to the feed water to avoid wasting the energy from the dynamo exhaust, which as the ship starts to get going is becoming quite considerable as the dynamos load up. Burning and turning… Renegade Splinter Faction: The Grag terrorists absolutely enrage most of the dwarf conservatives, who call for their deaths.