Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 124
the interior surface of which may be considered as effective in generating6team, in place of the upper half only of the common horizontal flue. And this beneficial efficiency,„.„ it is probable, may be further increased, if the lower end of the inside flue was made a fewinches wider than the top,… … Fig. 410, represents a longitudinal section, and fig. 411, a front view of a single return drop flue,rach as is used to drive the pumping engines at the Brooklyn Dry Dock. The boiler itself is 84 inchesin diameter; a regular fire-bos is made at one end, and the smoke and flame pass through a…
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