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Ship-building in iron and wood (1863)

Murray, Andrew, 1813-1872, Murray, Robert. Steam-ships, Creuze, Augustin Francis Bullock, 1800-1852 · Edinburgh : A. and C. Black · leaf 146

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nce, and is easily extinguished bycontact with a comparatively cool surface; as for instance,in passing through the wire-gauze of the miners safety-lamp. A precisely similar eflect is produced by the boiler-tubes, whose temperature, from their being surroundedwith water, must be considered low when… … Fig. 22.American iipriglit-tube Boiler. in which the tubes are disposed vertically, the smoke andflame passing round the outside of the tubes, and tlie waterbeing contained inside. These vertical-tube boilers arevery effective in generating steam, and partly for this reason,that the flame reaches…

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