Farm engines and how to run them; the young engineer's guide with special attention to traction and gasoline farm engines, and a chapter on the science of successful threshing (1910) (14765322445)

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Title: Farm engines and how to run them; the young engineer's guide ... with special attention to traction and gasoline farm engines, and a chapter on the science of successful threshing
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Stephenson, James H
Subjects: Farm engines Traction-engines
Publisher: Chicago, F.J. Drake & Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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FIG. 1. ORR & SEMBOWERS STANDARD HORIZONTAL BOILER, WITH FULL-ARCH FRONT SETTING. II 12 YOUNG ENGINEERS GUIDE. The object of all these improvements was to get largerheating surface. To make steam rapidly and econom-ically, the heating surface must be as large as possible,
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But there is a limit in that the boiler must not be cum-bersome, it must carry enough water, and have sufficientspace for steam, BOlr.ERS. T-; The stationary boiler now most commonly used is cyl-indrical, the fire is built in a brick furnace under thesheet and returns through fire tubes running the lengthof the boiler. (Fig. i.) LOCOMOTIVE FIRE TUBE TYPE OF BOILER. The earliest of the modern steam boilers to come intouse was the locomotive fire tube type, with a special fire-box. By reference to the illustration (Fig. 2) you willsee thatthe boiler cylinder is perforated wath a numberof tubes from. 2 to 4 inches in diameter running from thelarge firebox on the left, through the boiler cylinder filled