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The Locomotive (1867)

Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 154

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iameter by about 4 thick, with trunnions 14 inches diameter. Theseflanges were each joined to the cylinder by a zone of 6 gore sheets of T9g boiler plates,single riveted together, but double riveted to the cast-iron flanges. Steam was broughtthrough an inch and a half wrought iron pipe a distance… … Fig. 1. atus situated near the cylinder, upon which was a steam pressure gauge. The cylinderwas fitted with two large doors, similar to ordinary man-holes, through which the materialto be treated was introduced from above, the cylinder being stopped with the doorslooking upward for this purpose,…

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