The steam engine familiarly explained and illustrated; with an historical sketch of its invention and progressive improvement; its applications to navigation and railways; with plain axioms for railway speculators (1849)
t of heated air which is carried by thedraft through the fire, and finally passes into the chimney.To accomplish this object, therefore, it is necessary to exposeto both these sources of heat the greatest possible quantityof surface in contact with the water. These ends were LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES ON… … on one pair, which are worked by the engine. The boilerconsists of a cylinder six feet in length, with flat ends; thechimney issues from one end, and to the other end is attacheda square box, b, the bottom of which is furnished with thegrate on which the fuel is placed. This box is composed oftwo…
Steam-engines
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