Twentieth century hand-book for steam engineers and electricians with questions and answers; a practical non-technical treatise .. (1913)
Swingle, Calvin Franklin, 1846- [from old catalog] · Chicago, F. J. Drake & company · leaf 44
ountry it will be knownas the ^^Bigelow-Hornsby^^ boiler. It has been re-designedin a measure, to meet the requirements of American high-pressure practice. A general idea of its construction maybe obtained from Fig. 16, which shows a section throughthe setting. It will be noted that the boiler is… … Fig. 16section through setting of bigelow-hornsby boiler are vertical^ as shown. Only two lengths of tubes are used. Each section is independent of its neighbor, except I the nipples connecting Avith the steam drum and the equal- 32 Steam Engineering izing nipples which connect the bottom drums of…
