Sankey Diagrams » steam engine http://www.sankey-diagrams.com A Sankey diagram says more than 1000 pie charts Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:38:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 The first Sankey diagram http://www.sankey-diagrams.com/the-first-sankey-diagram/ http://www.sankey-diagrams.com/the-first-sankey-diagram/#comments Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:24:37 +0000 phineas http://www.sankey-diagrams.com/the-first-sankey-diagram/ A scan of one of the first – if not THE first ever – published Sankey diagrams has now been added to the Dutch and German Wikipedia articles. Actually I had always wanted to get hold of a digital version of this this energy efficiency diagram published by Captain Henry R. Sankey in 1898 in the Minutes of Proceedings of The Institution of Civil Engineers. Vol. CXXXIV, Session 1897-98. Part IV.

First Sankey diagram published 1898 in JIE (Source: Wiki Commons)

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Sankey used this novel type of diagram to represent energy flows and energy losses in a steam engine, comparing it to an ideal steam engine.

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