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 133
f theboilers of steamboats plying on the lakes and rivers of the Northern States; this change is the result ofthe introduction of anthracite, and the many experiments made to discover that form of grate and boilerbest adapted to its combustion. The editor has collected, with considerable labor and… … E In the year 1837, Robert L. Stevens, Esq., constructed a pair of boilers, of tubular form, for his steam-boat Independence, plying between South Amboy and New York, of which Figs. 415 and 416are correct representations, the form of which was well adapted to the burning of the new species offuel…
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