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 141
and 440.—The only dif-ference between these boilers and those of Dundonaid is in the furnaces, which are here double, onebeing above the other, caused by the necessity of obtaining more grate surface than could be obtainedwith one range of furnaces, the objection that had been urged against… … Improved steam-boiler—By ¥k. E. Milligan, New York City. Fig. 441 represents the boiler.The nature of this invention consists in a new arrangement of flues, tubes, and water spaces within aboiler for generating steam, whereby is presented a much enlarged amount of surface to the action ofheat. The…
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