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 draft of the furnace is produced in the same manner as in the
Rocket, by ejecting the waste steam coming from the cylinder into the
chimney; the boiler, however, differs considerably from that of the
Rocket. A recurved tube passes through the boiler, somewhat similar to
that already described in the early engine of Messrs. _Trevithick_ and
_Vivian_. In the horizontal section (fig. 58.), D expresses the
opening of the furnace at the end of the boiler, beside the chimney.
The grate-bars appear at A, supporting the burning fuel; and a curved
tube passing through the boiler, and terminating in the chimney, is
expressed at B, the direction of the draft being indicated by the
arrow; C is a section of the chimney. The cylinders are placed, as in
the Rocket, on each side of the boiler; each working a separate
wheel, but acting on spokes placed at right angles to each other. The
tube in which the grate and flue are placed diminishes in diameter as
it approaches the chimney. At the mouth where the grate was placed,
its diameter was 2 feet; and it was gradually reduced, so that, at the
chimney, its diameter was only 15 inches. The grate-bars extended 5
feet into the tube. The surface of water exposed to the radiant heat
of the fire was 16 square feet; and that exposed to the action of the
heated air and flame was about 75 square feet. The magnitude of the
grate or sheet of burning fuel which radiated heat, was 10 square
feet.
(90.) The Novelty, of Messrs. _Braithwait_ and _Ericson_, is
represented in fig. 59.; and a section of the generator and boiler is
exhibited in fig. 60.: the corresponding parts in the two figures are
marked by the same letters.
[Illustration: _Fig. 59._]
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