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 859
the draught, accurate fitting of the parts, inclosurc of the fire-space with slow conductors, and thebringing of all the heated products of combustion in contact with the largest possible absorbing andradiating metallic surface, so that the iron will give out its warmth at a low temperature.…
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