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)
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… … a is the generator or receiver, containing the steam whichworks the engine ; this communicates with a lower genera-tor b, which extends in a horizontal direction the entirelength of the carriage. Within the generator a is containedthe furnace f, which communicates in a tube c; carriedup through the…
Steam-engines
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