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Cassier's magazine (1891)

New York ; Cassier Magazine Co. · leaf 147

An illustration from Cassier's magazine, 1891, leaf 147
uantity. These higher tempera- has its foundations in the dynamical tures produced by the combustion of oil theory of heat and the laws which gov- •are in favour of its economy as a fuel for steam raising, although this point has not been used by the advocates of liquid PETROL- fuel. EUM 30.96 LBS.… … per pound of carbon burnt, and the FIG. 2.— EFFECT OF QUANTITY OF AIR ADMITTED temperature of combustion would then be TO A FURNACE ON ITS TEMPERATURE 14,0004-1371° _ _ — ^ J/0 =4211° F., or an 111- ern the specific heat of gases, it has not 15.4x0.238 crease of 375° over the temperature yet found…

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