. American engineer and railroad journal . hat the later the date of the attemptthe worse the results. They aie all based on the following recipe : First, crowd in the greatest possible amount of heating sur-face, no matter how or at what sacrifice of othei equallynecessary requirements. Second, the more bends and right angles SO placed as toobstruct circulation the better. Third, on the same basis that a steam-engine will run moreregularly without than with a fly-wheel, cut down the steamand water capacity to the lowest possible limit. Fourth, make it as far as possible out of pipes and fitti
. American engineer and railroad journal . hat the later the date of the attemptthe worse the results. They aie all based on the following recipe : First, crowd in the greatest possible amount of heating sur-face, no matter how or at what sacrifice of othei equallynecessary requirements. Second, the more bends and right angles SO placed as toobstruct circulation the better. Third, on the same basis that a steam-engine will run moreregularly without than with a fly-wheel, cut down the steamand water capacity to the lowest possible limit. Fourth, make it as far as possible out of pipes and fittings * From advance sheets of a publication by the Babcock & Wilcox Co. Sir Charles W. Dance, the inventor of;i~steam road-car-riage in England, joined Joshua Field (of Maudsley & Field,the builders) in patenting the first boiler of this description(fig. 48), and can be considered the father and godfather oftroubles in this line. The lower lubes were used as grates, asin Gurneys 1820 design. The familiar up-flow and -rrnnsT3r\v>. Flit. 51.—KILGORES BOILER, Circular Tinted In PUIiburg. down-flow pipes, connected by litlings (made specially, asthere were at that time no regular ones on the market), werepresent. All ideas of the necessity of steam or water capacity Vol. LXIX, No. C] AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 261 or desirability of access for internal cleaning were , weight and space occupied dominated the design. „
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