Steam engines; a thorough and practical presentation of modern steam engine practice (1917)
Ludy, Llewellyn V., 1875-, American Technical Society · Chicago, American technical society · leaf 73
The locomotive consists of two pri-mary elements, namely, the boiler which generates the steam and theengines which convert the energy of this steam into useful work bygiving motion to the transmission mechanism. Boiler. Fig. 47 illustrates a modern locomotive boiler. It con-sists of a cylindrical… … STEAM ENGINES 63 used at the front end of the fire box to allow for expansion and con-traction of the sheets. The boiler is divided into three distinctdepartments, as the fire box A, the water space B, and the smokebox C. The sheets 4 and 5, which separate these departments, areknown as the back…
Steam-engines
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