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The mechanical engineering of power plants (1897)

Hutton, Frederick Remsen, 1853- [from old catalog] · New York, J. Wiley & sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 528

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water-legs may conveniently now bemade cylindrical, and the barrel part become of the same sizeas the fire-box part, or nearly so. Fig. 418 shows such atypical upright boiler, and Fig. 419 a modification of it.The fire-box is stay-bolted against deformation and collapseinward, and the water-leg is… … Fig. 418. Fig. 419. 492 MECHANICAL ENGINEERING OF POWER PLANTS, (i) It is light and portable. (2) It requires no setting. (3) It is a rapid steamer, because vertical tube-surfacesevaporate rapidly and the water is subdivided. (4) It takes little floor-space. (5) The upward motion of the hot gases…

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