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 131
of theboilers of steamboats plying on the lakes and rivers of the Northern States; this change is the result o{the introduction of anthracite, and the many experiments made to discover that form of grate and aoderbest adapted to its combustion. The editor has collected, with considerable labor and… … In the year 1S37, Robert L. Stevens, Esq., constructed a pair of boilers, of tubular form, for his steam-boat Independence, plying between South Amboy and New York, of which Figs. 415 and 416are correct representations, the form of which was well adapted to the burning of the new species offuel by…
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