The Steam Engine Familiarly Explained and Illustrated: With an historical sketch of its invention and progressive improvement; its applications to navigation and railways; with plain axioms for railway speculatorsLardner, Dionysius
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The Steam Engine Familiarly Explained and Illustrated: With an historical sketch of its invention and progressive improvement; its applications to navigation and railways; with plain axioms for railway speculators
Lardner, Dionysius
Steam-engines -- Early works to 1850
the burning fuel, and which fills the fire-box, is carried by the
draft through the tubes which extend through the lower part of the
boiler; and as these tubes are surrounded on every side with the water
contained in the boiler, this air transmits its heat through these
tubes to the water. It finally issues into the chimney, and rises by
the draft. The power of this furnace must necessarily depend on the
power of draft in the chimney; and to increase this, and at the same
time to dispose of the waste steam after it has worked the piston,
this steam is carried off by a pipe L, which passes from the cylinder
to the chimney, and escapes there in a jet which is turned upwards. By
the velocity with which it issues from this jet, and by its great
comparative levity, it produces a strong current upwards in the
chimney, and thus gives force to the draft of the furnace. In fig. 56.
the grate-bars are represented at the bottom of the fire-box at F.
There are two cylinders, one of which works each wheel; one only
appearing in the drawing, fig. 55., the other being concealed by the
engine. The spokes which these cylinders work are placed at right
angles on the wheels; the wheels being fixed on a common axle, with
which they turn.
In this engine, the surface of water surrounding the fire-box, exposed
to the action of radiant heat, amounted to 20 square feet, which
received heat from the surface of 6 square feet of burning fuel on the
bars. The surface exposed to the action of the heated air amounted to
118 square feet. The engine drew after it another carriage, containing
fuel and water; the fuel used was coke, for the purpose of avoiding
the production of smoke.
(89.) The Sanspareil of Mr. _Hackworth_ is represented in fig. 57.;
the horizontal section being exhibited in fig. 58.
[Illustration: _Fig. 57._]
[Illustration: _Fig. 58._]
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