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 138
1= I n / i . ! i J i i BOILERS. 133 Figs. 430 and 431. The steamboat Globe, built by T. F. Secoe and Co., has one engine of 41-inch cylinder, with 11 feet stroke. IOC-Uses anthracite coal, with a blower. 100 cubic feet in the cylinder, which gives l6j^s to 1. … Improvements in stenm-boilers—By James Montgomery, Memphis, Tenn. These improvements havein view an economical mode of using the fuel; the establishing of a perfect circulation of the waterthrough the tubes; the depositing of sedimentary matter in a receptacle below the fire, and the pre-venting of…
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