THE mechanization of computation concerning steam plant design has been greatly frustrated by the difficulty of having to use steam tables. An experiment carried out using the University of Manchester ...

PROF. CALLENDAR, in his Royal Society paper of 1900, suggested the use as the characteristic for steam of v–b=Rθ/p–Cθn–V–c, say. This is suggested by the Joule Thomson equation for gases, where n = 2, ...