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The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)

London : [William Laxton] · leaf 407

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top, and intended to be large enough for two such boilers, which it evi-dently is. The following cut (fig. 3) is a cross section of the boiler taken * That is, without any return flue, but with the flame and smoke to passfrom the fire place directly under the bottom of the boiler to the vent… … through the furnace at A, just iu front of the fire bridge. This bridge isan inverted arch of the same radius as the boiler, and placed 8 or 9 inchesbelow the bottom of the latter. The second or flame bridge B, is princi-pally for the purjiose of spreading the flame and heated air around the…

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