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 808
802 WARMI>sG AND VENTILATION. the usual allowance for the expansion of cast-iron pipes is one-eighth of an inch in 10 feet, or ^gj ctheir length. Cast-iron, heated from 32° to 212°, expands ,1^ of its length, -n-hieh is nearly 1 of aninch in 100 feet. A similar expansion-joint applied to the…
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