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)
ernate 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 and heated air;so that steam of a high pressure is produced in… … 7VVWVWVVVWVVWWWVWVYVVV\ p }v 236 THE STEAM ENGINE. in the figure. The distance between the plates is twoinches. There are ten flat chambers of this kind for water, andintermediately between them ten flues. Under the flues isthe fireplace, or grate ; containing six square feet of fuel invivid…
Steam-engines
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