Modern American locomotive engines; their design, construction and management. A practical work for practical men (1883)
Edwards, Emory, b. 1841 · Bridgeport, Conn., Frederick Keppy · leaf 107
GINES. the steam is first produced, is of a cylindrical form,having a furnace or fire-box B, at one end, surroundedby a water casing, communicating with the boiler,and which is to prevent the destruction of the platesof which the fire-box is formed, by the intense heatof the fire. The plates which… … fire-box proper by a number of stay-bolts, X, X. 2, 2is the grate upon which the fuel is burned, the bottomof the fire-box being open to admit the air necessaryfor the combustion of the fuel; 3 is the door throughwhich the fuel is admitted. (9, (9, show a number oftubes, their purpose being to…
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