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 50
he smoke is what is termed a wheel draught, as the smokewheels once round the boiler, and then ascends the chimney. 86. Q.—Is the performance of this course by the smokeuniversal in wagon boilers ? * A.—No; such boilers sometimes have what is termed asplit draught. The smoke and flame, when they… … 36 THE WAGON BOILER. ing through a flue on the one side of the boiler, and the otherhalf passing through a flue on the other side of the boiler—bothof these flues having their debouch in the chimney. 87. Q.—What are the appliances usually connected with awagon boiler ? A,—On the top of the boiler,…
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