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 789
carrying -with it the products of com-bustion, is indicated by the direction of the arrows. It is stated that the intense heat produced by the hot current of air traversing the space between thetwo glass cylinders, causes the glass to become more or less opaque, and thus obstructs the passage olthe… … burner, with an ordinary chimney, discharging the products of combustion into the metal tube F; K isa large glass tube, open at the top, in the vicinity of the metal flue F, from which it is suspended.The air for feeding the flame descends in the direction of the arrows, enters the burner at b, and…
Mechanical engineering
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