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 130
erence to the superior arrangement of the furnaces, aud have anticipated great resultsfrom the adoDtion of the same plan in steam-boilers. [Fig. 414 The steamboat NewYork, built by H. R. Dunham andto)., has one copper boiler, one en-gine, 40-inch cylinder, ?j stroke ; en-tire surface, 16084 viz.:… … This erroneous conclusion is the result of ignorance, or of inattention to the fact that in steam-boilersthe flames are partially extinguished by coming in contact with surfaces, comparatively cold, highly conducting, since the heat of the metallic plates of the boiler can never be much above the…
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