. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . TKKVITIIICKS RETURN coal trains. That Trevithicks boiler had marked the most important step in boiler little influence on pioneer locomotives construction, being the first real im- was due to the fact that its designer did provement afTecting the steaming ca- not follow up the work of locomotive pacity of the locomotive boiler, .Much building. thought had been given to the subject of The progress made in boiler improve- •raft, but most of the experiments nients was necessarily
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . TKKVITIIICKS RETURN coal trains. That Trevithicks boiler had marked the most important step in boiler little influence on pioneer locomotives construction, being the first real im- was due to the fact that its designer did provement afTecting the steaming ca- not follow up the work of locomotive pacity of the locomotive boiler, .Much building. thought had been given to the subject of The progress made in boiler improve- •raft, but most of the experiments nients was necessarily slow from 1814 to seemed to have been devoted to fans to. BOILER, 1827. 1827, as the locomotive had simply tokeep pace with the demands of the timefor motive power, and as these demandscontemplated nothing but freight move-ment, and that at not more than 3 to 8miles an hour, the boilers then in use HACKWORTHS RETURN FLUE in Nonpareil Engine, that was in com-petition with Rocket. Fie i on Table. gain the object sought. The passing ofthe exhaust steam into the stack for thepurpose of inducing draft on the fire, asthen applied, has not been improved on,except in minor details, the principle re-
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