The steam engine familiarly explained and illustrated; with an historical sketch of its invention and progressive improvement; (1836)
Lardner, Dionysius, 1793-1859, Renwick, James, 1790-1863. [from old catalog] · Philadelphia, E. L. Carey & A. Hart · leaf 270
te pair of plates, at e,fig. 66., and the intermediate spaces h forming the fluethrough which the flame and hot air are propelled. In fact, a number of thin plates of water are. exposed onboth sides to the most intense action of flame artd heated air;so that steam of%a high pressure is produced in… … 236 THE STEAM ENGINE. in the figure. The distance between the plates is twoinches. There are ten flat chambers of this kind for water, and in-termediately between them ten flues. Under the flues isthe fire-place, or grate; containing six square feet of fuel invivid combustion. The chambers are all…
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