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 279
77ie smoke-box.—The tubes ecc all open into that part of the boiler called the smokebox F, the pur-nose of which is to collect the gases evolved by the combustion of the fuel, and to transmit them throughthe chimney G into the air. In this compartment of the boiler are also placed the steam…
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