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 41
for keeping the boiler clean; the rapidity ofwater circulation and impossibility of forming steampockets, all combine to protect the tubes against burning 28 Steam Engineering out. Hence the necessity of repairs to the boiler itself isextremely remote. The setting is simple and substantialand not… … Fig. 14front elevation maxim boiler Maxim Water Tube Boiler 29 Each tube has two bends, thus providing for unequal ex-pansion and contraction. The space between the tubes isgreater than the diameter of the tubes, so that any tubecan be passed through, the space between. The tubes, whichare nearly…