. The railroad and engineering journal . of conversion into gas, it must be re-membered that it was not possible to burn solid fuel with-out introducing something like twice the quantity of airtheoretically required for its combustion from the fuel andinsure its being supplied with a sufficiency of , this supply of air had to be drawn in by a strongchimney draft, wliich causes a rapid withdrawal of the 524 THE RAILROAD AND [November, 1889. heated currents, and so a further loss was gas it was not necessary to have so large an excessof air present, and very little
. The railroad and engineering journal . of conversion into gas, it must be re-membered that it was not possible to burn solid fuel with-out introducing something like twice the quantity of airtheoretically required for its combustion from the fuel andinsure its being supplied with a sufficiency of , this supply of air had to be drawn in by a strongchimney draft, wliich causes a rapid withdrawal of the 524 THE RAILROAD AND [November, 1889. heated currents, and so a further loss was gas it was not necessary to have so large an excessof air present, and very little chimney draft suRiced, andconsequently there was a comparative gain. Further thanthis, the gas could, when required, be heated before corn- disease. Wilh one exception, the railroad and engineeringpapers everywhere became advocates of the narrow-gauge sys-tem, and many roads were built and much money was wastedas a consequence of the delusions, which so many at that limeseemed to take pleasure and comfort in believing. It is not Fig. bustion by means of the outgoing products, but with solidfuel this was impossible. Another speaker said that the object in using gaseousfuel was to convert it into a more manageable form, andits employment might be advantageous when the heat wasneeded under exact regulation, and with a minimum oflabor and dirt. A temperature was obtainable with thegaseous fuel which was absolutely unattainable with solidfuel, anil that proved that when high temperature wasrequired gaseous fuel was the only form in which to usefuel, and when heat was required to be under control, gasoffered the readiest means of regulation. The discussion, of course, had no reference to the useof natural gas, which does not exist in quantities whichmake its use practicable in England. The C. W. Hunt Companys Narrow-Gauge Railroads. Probably there are many of the generation of young railroadmen who are so rapidly filling the places of those who havecrossed the summit of the divid
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