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The boy engineers; (1880)

Lukin, James. [from old catalog] · New York, G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 262

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lar flue from the back or nearly the back of thegrate went entirely through the boiler vertically, forminga chimney at the top, and into this the exhaust steamwas carried by the pipe P, which turned upwards in thefunnel. The other pipe just below it brought the steamfrom the boiler into the… … Fig. 21. 252 BOY ENGINEERS. ment which, settling at the bottom, would prevent the heatof the furnace from exercising its full power upon thewater. ABC are gauge taps for the purpose of testing theheight of the water, and D is the glass water-gauge forthe same purpose. We made the gauge, but not the…

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