The wonders of modern mechanism. A résumé of recent progress in mechanical, physical, and engineering science (1896)
Cochrane, Charles Henry, 1856- · Philadelphia J.B. Lippincott · leaf 296
benefits ot a desirable combination.It is much used in connection with natural-gas i)lants,which have a bad habit of giving out as the thermometerapproaches zero, hence require to be supplemented by asystem of manufactured gas. This apparatus consists ofone or more heating chambers or retorts, used… … ^ T-=r M, j T1 :iJ ..a THE ROSE-HAsTINGS COAL-GAS APPAKATLS. retting, gas-fixing, and steaming, all arranged in a circle;and a central chamber for distributing hot air—the wholeset of chambers being enclosed in a great steel shell, asshown in the illustration. The sections for soft coal andcoke are…
Inventions · Mechanical engineering · Machinery
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