Locomotive catechism; an up-to-date, practical and complete work on the locomotive--treating on the design, construction, repair and running of all kinds of locomotives .. (1908)
Grimshaw, Robert, 1850- [from old catalog] · New York, The N. W. Henley publishing company · leaf 178
scapes from the safety-valve lessened, to prevent frightening horses when trains arestanding at stations, and from being a general nuisance? A. By a muffler, one form of which consists of a wire coilthrough the interstices of which the steam escapes, makingmuch less noise than where it has to pour… … Fig. 102. Crosby Locomotive Fig. 103. Meady Muffled Locomo-Pop Safety-valve. tive Pop Safety-valve. have a central vertical pipe with a large number of L-shapedtubular branches pointing upward. In all, the principle is thesame: to give the steam a very large area of escape, dividedup into as many…
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