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A compound steam engine in which piston rods of high pressure and low pressure cylinders ' are attached to two different cranks set at 180° to each other, is called

receiver type compound engine
Tandem type compound engine
Woolf type compound engine
both (a) and (b)

Correct Answer: Woolf type compound engine

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