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 800
breakage and aiding to its appear-ance. In England, and every where in Europe, glass gauges are uni-versally used on locomotives as well as on stationary and marineboilers. They very rarely break, and seldom do any damage in GAUGES. 789 breaking. They are very simple, and show the water level with… … cated signals working by concealed apparatus can be.They can be entirely shut off if desired, while the timeto renew a tube does not exceed five minutes. Fig. 1979 represents E. D. Ruggs patent WaterGauge attached to a boiler. It differs essentially fromall other glass gauges in that the water in…
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