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Definition of Dampers
1. damper [n] - See also: damper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dampers
Literary usage of Dampers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Steam-electric Power Plants: A Practical Treatise on the Design of Central by Frank Koester (1908)
"dampers. — The branch flues as well as main flues should be provided with dampers.
These dampers may either be of the sliding or rotating form, ..."
2. Steam Power Plant Engineering by George Frederick Gebhardt (1913)
"Automatic dampers are economical and useful and are particularly desirable ...
When properly adjusted and given proper attention automatic dampers work in a ..."
3. Heating and Ventilating Buildings: A Manual for Heating Engineers and Architects by Rolla Clinton Carpenter (1915)
"Volume- or Regulating-dampers.—These dampers are used at the place where the
horizontal flues ... These dampers are made in a variety of ways, but in Fie. ..."
4. Appleby's Illustrated Handbook of Machinery by Charles James Appleby (1877)
"SELF-ACTING dampers. The regulation of the quantity of air admitted to a boiler
furnace is a very important point, and as firemen do not always attend to ..."
5. Pedalling in Pianoforte Music by Algernon H. Lindo (1922)
"instrument and observe the mechanism in operation, both of the hammers and dampers,
noting specially how it varies under the influence, first, ..."
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