A history of the growth of the steam-engine (1878)
Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 366
es used asstationary boilers. Fig. 108 represents such a steam-boilerin section, as it is usually exhibited in working drawings.Provision is made to secure a good circulation of water inthese boilers by means of the baffle-plates, seen in thesketch, which compel the water to flow as indicated by… … Fig. 108.—Baboock & Wilcoxs Vertical Boiler. and a smaller boiler. The steam-space is made as large aspossible, to secure immunity from priming or the en-trainment of water with the steam. This type of steam-boiler, invented by Nathan Read, of Salem, Mass., in 1791,and patented in April of that…
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