Nobby still has his goblin girlfriend, Shine of the Rainbow, from Snuff. People think she's throwing herself away on him. Goblins think he's throwing himself away on her. It's mentioned that Lady Margolotta has encouraged the vampires of Überwald to switch to coffee rather than blood, which Maladicta had done in Monstrous Regiment.

Raising Steam - Sir Terry Pratchett

Steam generating plant The bells ring again – STOP! Shutting off the throttle, the engine comes slowly to a halt. You don’t know what the next command will be, so leave the reversing gear in the ahead position. Also shown is the main steam pipe that is routed throughout the ship from No6 Boiler Room (foremost) to the engineroom.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: All five single-ended boilers in Boiler Room 1 (the line used for electrical power in port) The emergency dynamos were connected to – The Patrician of Ankh-Morpork, Lord Vetinari, wishing to ensure that the City has appropriate influence over the new enterprise, appoints the reformed fraudster turned civil servant Moist von Lipwig to represent the government in the management of the railway. His skills soon come in useful in negotiations with landowners along the route of the new line.

Raising Steam - Penguin Books UK Raising Steam - Penguin Books UK

Does anyone know, or does anyone know where I can find out, how long it took to heat up the water (starting with cold water, and with empty furnaces) in Titanic's boilers and get a head of steam that could run the engines? The hotwell pumps draw from these tanks and pump the feedwater through two feed heaters, after first sending it through filters to remove oil, grease and other impurities. Surface feed heaterSteam is rising over Discworld, driven by Mister Simnel, the man wi' t'flat cap and sliding rule who has an interesting arrangement with the sine and cosine. Moist will have to grapple with gallons of grease, goblins, a fat controller with a history of throwing employees down the stairs and some very angry dwarfs if he's going to stop it all going off the rails... The vessel is still on shore power, so we close the emergency dynamo breaker onto the Emergency Board. Even if other dynamos are on the board, with Direct Current no synchronisation is required, hence dynamos can be added to the main switchboard at any given time. On closing the breaker, the voltmeter lamps will light dimly and show a small voltage. Using the shunt field regulator (also called the exciter), we turn up the voltage until it shows full mains voltage of 100V. Up above in the emergency dynamo room, the increased load of lighting and the stokehold fan will cause the dynamo governor to admit more steam to the cylinders to maintain the engine speed. The lights would have stayed on providing an emergency dynamo was running, which is likely to have been the case as there were no batteries fitted for emergency lighting on Titanic, though Olympic may have been retrofitted after the accident. Looking at the angle of the waterline at the point where the lights went out – just prior to breaking in two – it is very close to the suction for the auxiliary condenser seawater pump above. King Incognito: In the build up to the book's climax, there is mention of a "legendary" stoker named Blake, who can win a fight against any of the others (which they do in their spare time). He turns out to be Vetinari himself, who left a body double in Ankh-Morpork so that he could help ensure the success of Iron Girder's emergency run to Bonk. He expresses a desire to assume the identity again, as he enjoys the job. Off we go aft into the turbine room again, where we can take a moment to pass round the equipment to the port outboard side.

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The grags came down heavily on those who did not conform and seemed not to realize that this was like stamping potatoes into the mud to stop them growing.” All boiler controls, regulators, alarms and trips must be tested regularly in accordance with the applicable Planned Maintenance System and maker’s recommendations. Each test is to be recorded with the signature of the Engineer Officer who conducted the test.... New things, new ideas arrived and strutted their stuff and were vilified by some and then lo! that which had been a monster was suddenly totally important to the world.” TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Once lit, the dampers adjust the boiler draft and the fires start to heat the water in the fire-tube boilers. The main dynamos, refrigeration machinery and auxiliary pumps (termed “the auxiliaries”) were fed from a steam main connected to – Ash chutes are provided to discharge ash from the furnace bottoms overboard at regular intervals to keep the stokehold clear of ash whilst at sea. In port ash hoists are used to dispose of the ash to shore facilities. Main steam piping I see embarrassment among all of you. That's good. The thing about being embarrassed is that sooner or later you aren't, but you remember that you were.”

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Manly Tears: King goes from rage into full Inelegant Blubbering when he learns some of his employees have been murdered.Iron Girder sometimes behaves in such a way that Moist speculates she might be alive. It turns out, not only has she gained sapience, she has ascended to godhood, due to representing the railway itself in the minds of nearly everyone.