Inventors at work, with chapters on discovery (1906)
Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 441
ordinary furnace the draft moves upward, obeying theimpulse due to the lightness of its heated gases. This directionis reversed in down-draft furnaces which were originally devisedby Lord Dundonald more than a century ago. In their moderntypes a fan blast forces the draft downward through the… … ft Loomis gas-producer a like method is adopted : the fuel is chargedthrough an open door in the top of the generator and the gas isexhausted from the bottom of the fire. Thus all tarry andvolatile matter in bituminous coal or wood is converted into afixed gas. Thirty years ago one would have…
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