A history of the growth of the steam-engine (1878)
Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 236
engine (Fig. 60) had a vertical tubular boiler, inwhich the gases rose through a very high fire-box, intowhich large numbers of rods projected from the sides andtop, and passed out through tubes leading them laterallyoutward into an outside jacket, through which they rose tothe chimney. The… … Fio. 60.—The Best Friend, 1830. coupling-rods. The engine weighed 4^ tons. The BestFriend, as it was called, did excellent work until June,1831, when the explosion of the boiler, in consequence of therecklessness of the fireman, unexpectedly closed its career. 212 THE MODERN STEAM-ENGINE. A second…
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