Locomotive engine running and management .. (1899)
Sinclair, Angus, 1841-1919 · New York, J. Wiley & sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 371
and stimulate combustion. The gases released fromthe burning fuel pass up into the body of the fire-boxBB, thence into the flue-tubes xxx to the smoke-box 321 322 LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE RUNNING. CC, from whence they pass to the atmosphere by thesmoke-stack D. In traversing this route the fuel-gases… … Fig. 40. remarkable difference in the faculty of boilers forabsorbing the heat of the fire-gases, and not a little ofthis difference is due to the design and arrangementof the draft appliances. Locomotive engineers and firemen do not design ormake the draft appliances of the engines they operate;…
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