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 142
by means of the vertical flues, that the product of combustion from the fireplace shall passinto the upper horizontal flue, and thence down the vertical flues into the lower horizontal flue, havingthus the facility of parting with its heat on the one hand by radiation through the flues to the… … Boiler invented by E. A. Bourry. Figs. 442, 443, 444. The aim of the inventor of this boiler has not been, like with many others, to obtain an incrediblesaving of fuel, but to insure great safety, combined with restriction of space and cost. The cylindrical form of boilers is the best adapted for…
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