Two centuries of shipbuilding by the Scotts at Greenock (1906)
Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd · London : offices of "Engineering" · leaf 74
e soon developed small holes in theboiler-tubes, owing to erosion of the external surface, pro-bably the consequence of the chemical action set up by thesteam for cleaning the tubes mixing with the soot and otherdeposit.3 Although for this reason this early water-tubeboiler did not succeed, there… … A PIONEER IN WATER-TUBE BOILERS. 36 The High = Pressure Machinery of the Thetis. formances suggested improvements which have since broughtcomplete success to this system of boiler. At the same ,time, the efficiency of high steam pressures was completelyestablished and resulted in very considerable…
