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 162
The Howard boiler, Figs. 621a and 621^, an English invention, is com-posed of ginch tubes, connected together in groups, and placed at an anglewith the horizontal. The tubes are connected together at both ends by caps … cast upon them For an account of a trial of one of these boilers, containingmany interesting details, see Van Nostrands Eclectic Engineering Magazine,February and March, 1866. In the Whittingham boiler, Fig. 621/, the water is contained in the narrowspaces between the two tubes, as shown in…
Mechanics, Applied · Mechanical engineering
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