A manual of the mechanics of engineering and of the construction of machines. Designed as a text-book for technical schools and colleges, and for the use of engineers, architects, etc. (1878)
Weisbach, Julius Ludwig, 1806-1871, Du Bois, A. Jay (Augustus Jay), 1849-1915, Buel, Richard H. (Richard Hooker), b. 1842 · New York. J. Wiley & Sons, 1878- · leaf 157
with boiler tubes differ fromthose with heating tubes, in that the former have the fur-nace beneath the boiler tubes, but the latter beneath themain boiler ; in the first, the flues lead from the boiler tubesto the main boiler, and from thence into the chimney, butm the latter the gases pass… … are employed when it is desired to economize space andto accelerate the generation of steam, wherefore they arespecially applicable to locomotives and steamships. In theolder tubular boilers of J. Barlow, the tubes were filledwith water and surrounded by the hot air, but in the morerecent tubular…
Mechanics, Applied · Mechanical engineering
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