Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1869)
New York, Appleton · leaf 281
The smoke-box.—The tubes eee all open into that part of the boiler called the smoke-box F, the pur-nose of which is td collect the gases evolved by the combustion of the fuel, and to transmit them throughthe chimney (J- into the air. In this compartment of the boiler are also placed the steam…
Mechanical engineering
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