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,on each side of the boiler; each working a separate wheel,P2 174 THE STEAM ENGINE. but acting on spokes placed at right angles to each other.The tube in which the grate and flue are placed diminishesin diameter as it approaches the chimney. At the mouthwhere the grate was placed, its diameter was… … LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES ON RAILWAYS. 175 of the fire was 16 square feet; and that exposed to the actionof the heated air and flame was about 75 square feet. Themagnitude of the grate or sheet of burning fuel which radi-ated heat, was 10 square feet. (90.) The Novelty, of Messrs. Braithwait and…
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