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 136
BOILERS. 133 Figs. 430 and 431. The steamboat Globe, built by T. F. Secor and Co., has one engine of 41mch cylinder, with 11 feet stroke. 100 cubic feet in the cylinder, which gives 10TA to 1.Uses anthracite coal, with a blower. … Improvements in steam-boilers—By James Montgomery, Memphis, Tenn. These improvements havein view an economical mode of using the fuel; the establishing of a perfect circulation of the waterthrough the tubes ; the depositing of sedimentary matter in a receptacle below the fire, and the pre-venting…
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