A history of the growth of the steam-engine (1878)
Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 289
that his planswere complete, and on paper. In 1804, while Fulton was in Europe, Stevens had com-pleted a steamboat, 68 feet long and of 14 feet beam, whichcombined novelties and merits of design in a manner thatexhibited the best possible evidence of remarkable inventivetalent, as well as of the… … Fig. 83.—Section of Steam-Boilcr, 1S04. known as sectional boilers, and contained 100 tubes 2 inchesin diameter and 18 inches long, each fastened at one end toa central water-leg and steam-drum, and plugged at theother end. The flames from the furnace passed around andamong the tubes, the water…
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