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 687
ies, and new methods have been created by which it can be accomplished. InFrance, chaufferettes filled with hot water are employed. These are elliptical cylinders about 3 ft. inlength, containing about 10 quarts of water, and are filled at certain stations, where special boilersare erected. The… … boiler with inside furnaces, from which water heated to the boiling temperature forces itself throughpipes into chaufferettes, which are placed in the centre of the floor in each compartment. Alterbein- cooled, the water returns back to the boiler through another series of pipes. Figs. 3637 and…
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