A catechism of the steam engine and its various applications to mines, mills, steam navigation, railways, and agriculture (1876)
Bourne, John, civil engineer. [from old catalog] · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 378
ly from all boilers now in use. The fire box or furnace is simply a square box or furnace ofany required dimensioQS ; it is nothing more than a water spacesurrounding the fire, stay-bolted as all water spaces are. It ismade of boiler plate in the usual manner. The water spaceextends only f of the… … 364 internal arrangements of tlie boiler are composed of a largenumber of tubes, lying across in a horizontal position, put to-gether in sections with return bends resembling the coils forheating buildings. These coils are of small pipe (say one inchin diameter), and as numerous as may be…
Steam engineering · Steam-engines
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