ration, a tube was sometimesinserted at the lowest level to which it was intended that thewater should be permitted to fall. This tube was conducted fromthe boiler into the engine-house, where it terminated in a mouth-piece or whistle, so that whenever the water fell below the levelat which this… … SELF-ACTING FEEDER. Fte. 4. In the most effectual of these methods, the task of replenishingthe boiler must still be executed by the engineer; and the utmostthat the boiler itself was made to do, was to give due notice ofthe necessity for the supply of water. The consequence was,among other…
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