The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 361
ines, in point of danger—nothing but the ordinary construction.There were attached to the engines two pumps for feeding the boilers ;another pump was worked by an auxiliary engine, which was commonlycalled the donkey ; and there was a fourth pump, to be worked by thehand, for feeding the boilers.… … Ove feet in diameter, having a hemispherical end at the back, and the frontbeing composed of a flat plate. To this flat plate are lixtd a c) liuder,forming the furnace, and all the small tubes through which the products ofcombustion pass. The internal part of the boiler, con.sisting of the…
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