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 863
dome is continuous and contains no air-flues, as is generally the ease in furnaces of this description. The smoke-flue is placed on one side, ami has a continuation over the feed-door which carries off any smoke or gas that otherwise might escape on opening the door. The cold-air flue is at the… … STRAIGHT-EDGE. 829 Peterson & Co. of Philadelphia.It consists of a cylindrical bodyof iron, in which the fire-pot isplaced. Entirely surrounding thisbody, with the exception of a smallportion at the base, is a shell ofiron, a space being left betweenin which the air is heated and dis-tributed…
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