Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1861)
Appleton, firm, publishers, New York. (1852, D. Appleton & Co.) · New York : D. Appleton · leaf 125
he boiler to the front end, where thechimney is placed, or making one return through one flue or set of flues, it is again returned by anotherset to the rear to the chimney. Still in another the boiler is made cylindrical, with the lower half cutaway at one end for the reception of the grate, and… … 899. Scale.—l-20th inch = 1 foot.Longitudinal Section. Figs. 398, 399, These flues may beeither large and few, or more numerousand smaller; the latter class when tubesare used are called locomotive boilers, al-though used for stationary purposes. Theadvantage of this form is, that the hot-test part…
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