Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 204
his furnace, recentlyinvented in England by Mr. Thomas Girdlow, is shown in Fig. 2456.It is thus described by the inventor: It consists essentially of a reverberatory furnace differing but lit-tle in construction fromthe furnaces in generaluse, the essential featureof novelty being that thefurnace… … furnace and the chimney or flue during the oscillation, so that the products of combustion may be freeto escape. The figure shows a side elevation, with section partly marked. The body of the furnaceis supported so as to be free to rock on the bearings B ; C is the curved neck, which fits against…
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