The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 138
ly, in soconstructing the fire-chamber or furnace as to obtain solidity of substance,and isolation from surrounding conducting media as far as may be practic-able, with confinement of space or closeness of the fire-chamber: thepatentees object being to absorb and retain as long as possible the… … The annexed figure shows a verticalsection of a stove, a is the fire-cham-ber, of fire-briclis, about two inchesthick, of a cylindrical shape (or eitlierconical, square, or polygonal, if prefer-red), and the lop is perforated with nu-merous holes, from ith to ith of aninch in diameter, on the side,…
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