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 128
e Boiler, by Daniel K. Clark, of Edinburgh, a paper read before theLondon Ins., C. E., as the most extended and reliable of any yet published; but it must be observedthat the engines experimented on were coke engines, a fuel little used in this couutry; the applicationof the same principles might… … The evaporation of 12 lbs. of water per pound of pure coke was found, by careful laboratory experi-ments, to be the maximum of evaporative performance ; in the best ordinary practice an actual evap-oration of 9 lbs. of water per pound of coke, or 75 per cent, of the possible maximum, was…
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