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 864
Tne mc-pot is nneu \wm ure-unciv. _ Eickemeyers Furnace, devised by Mr. R. Eickemeyer of Yonkers, N. Y., is represented in Fig.4060. The surface of the grate can be increased or diminished by simple mechanism, to adapt it tothe draft. The fire-box, ash-pit, etc., are entirely inclosed in a… … the air to be heated circulates, and at the same time is entirely shut off from contact or possibility ofmingling with the eases of combustion. STRAIGHT-EDGE. The straight-edge is employed for the same purposes as a surface-plate.(See Planometer.) It is in fact a long and narrow surface-plate,…
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