Boiler

Examples

• The boiler was tubular, and the exhaust steam was carried into the chimney by a pipe in front of the smoke stack as shown. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• See that the boiler's full. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• This is done by attaching to the service pipe tanks filled with filtering material, through which the water flows before reaching the boiler. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It embodied, as leading features, the steam blast and the multitubular boiler, which latter was six feet long and had twenty-five three-inch tubes. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The machinery of all my nature; the whole enginery of this human mill; the boiler, which I take to be the heart, is fit to burst. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Such boilers are adapted for portable stationary engines, locomotives, fire and marine engines, and the fire is built within the boiler frame. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• There were twenty-five of these tubes passing through the boiler, and fixed water-tight at each end. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Nathan Read of Salem, Massachusetts, in 1791, invented a tubular boiler in which the flues and gases are conducted through tubes passing through the boiler into the smokestack. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In this engine a cylinder was employed for receiving the steam from a separate boiler. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The boiler house, which furnishes the steam for heating the entire plant, is located in the rear of these buildings. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The station at Berlin comprised five boilers, and six vertical steam-engines driving by belts twelve Edison dynamos, each of about fifty-five horse-power capacity. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Such boilers are adapted for portable stationary engines, locomotives, fire and marine engines, and the fire is built within the boiler frame. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Stage-coaches were upsetting in all directions, horses were bolting, boats were overturning, and boilers were bursting. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The boilers were fired by wood, as the economical transportation of coal was a physical impossibility. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The wire in each disc is 1,140 feet long; and the total length of wire in the regenerator is 41? miles, or equal to the surface of four steam boilers, each 40 feet long and 4 feet diameter. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Heat the water in two or more boilers, as a large quantity will be required, and pour it in through the tube on top of the incubator boiling hot, using a funnel in the tube for the purpose. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• This exceedingly useful apparatus has been improved and universally used wherever steam boilers are found. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The necessary steam boilers were accommodated in the basement, while the second floor was occupied by six generators of 125 horse-power each, nicknamed Jumbos. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The boilers have also been elongated, to enlarge the evaporating surface and economize fuel. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Boilers, engines, dynamos, motors, distribution mains, meters, house-wiring, safety-devices, lamps, and lamp-fixtures--all were vital parts of the whole system. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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