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Inventors at work, with chapters on discovery (1906)

Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 535

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ours, according tothe rate of working. In large pro-ducers the ash bed is kept aboutthree and a half feet deep, so thatany coal that may pass the point of air admission has ample timeto burn entirely out: in a producer with an ordinary grate suchcoal would fall wastefully into the ashpit. As the… … Taylor gas-producer.R. D. Wood & Co., Philadelphia MOND GAS 461 of the crank at frequent intervals maintain the fuel in solid con-dition, reducing the need of poking from above. Other American producers differ from the Wood apparatus indetails of design and operation; in principle all are much…

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