Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 386
ndthe various forms of fire tube boilers having external furnaces usingwood or coal fuel were hand fired and operated at ioo lbs. pressure orless. The rate of evaporation was low as compared with that in the rail-way locomotive boiler of that time, and with the load carried by similarequipment… … Figure io8 THE LOCOMOTIVE o«ober. temperatures were low and where the feed water was of average qualitythere was little or no detrimental effect upon the fire box and shellplate seams exposed to the heat of combustion. However, as industries improved their methods of production andthe smaller…
Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions
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