Twentieth century handbook for steam engineers and electricians, with questions and answers; a practical nontechnical treatise on the care and management of steam engines, boilers and electric machinery (1922)
Swingle, Calvin Franklin, 1846- [from old catalog] · Chicago, F. J. Drake & company · leaf 28
ces be-tween the tubes, and off to the chimney. The water insidethe tubes, as it is heated, tends to rise towards the higherend, and as it is converted into steam—the mingled col-umn of steam and water being of less specific gravity thanthe solid water at the back end of the boiler—rises throughthe… … Fig. 9partial vertical section babcock & wilcox boiler 20 Steam Engineering tinuous circulation. As the passages are all large andfree, this circulation is very rapid, sweeping away thesteam as fast as formed, and supplying its place with wa-
