. Factory and industrial management. THE UPPER PICTURE SHOWS PROCTORS SHOVEL STOKER: THE LOWER, PROCTORSCOKING STOKER, DESIGNED FOR SMOKELESS FIRING. 731 yz2 THE ENGINEERING AMERICAN STOKERS, UNDERFEED SYSTEM, AT THE HOMESTEAD MILLS, CARNEGIE STEEL CO., UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION, PITTSBURG, PA. American Stoker Co., N. Y. ing is the most economical. The diagram brings out some interest-mg things, and while on the face of it hand firing appears to be themost economical, yet when we consider the labor and repair side ofthe question, and the investment, interest, taxes, etc., in a
. Factory and industrial management. THE UPPER PICTURE SHOWS PROCTORS SHOVEL STOKER: THE LOWER, PROCTORSCOKING STOKER, DESIGNED FOR SMOKELESS FIRING. 731 yz2 THE ENGINEERING AMERICAN STOKERS, UNDERFEED SYSTEM, AT THE HOMESTEAD MILLS, CARNEGIE STEEL CO., UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION, PITTSBURG, PA. American Stoker Co., N. Y. ing is the most economical. The diagram brings out some interest-mg things, and while on the face of it hand firing appears to be themost economical, yet when we consider the labor and repair side ofthe question, and the investment, interest, taxes, etc., in all prob-ability in plants of over 2,000 boiler horse power in continuous opera-tion, the mechanical stoker, properly selected for the fuel and work tobe done, will prove the most economical. Apart from considerations of economy and of smoke prevention,the introduction of the mechanical stoker is to be advocated for thereason that it supersedes one of the most fatiguing and difficult kindsof work which has been undertaken by human effort. Even in landinstallations the work of firing boilers is hard and dirty, while on ship-board it has long been considered the heaviest and most
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