A history of the growth of the steam-engine . n HancockCounty, Me., after his removal to that State in 1807. Hedied in Belfast, Me., in 1849, at the age of ninety years. In the year 1788 he became interested in the problemof steam-navigation, and learned something of the work ofFitch. He first attempted to design a boiler that should bestrong, light, and compact, as well as safe. His first planwas that of the Portable Furnace-Boiler, as he called it;it was patented August 26,1791. As designed, it consisted,as seen in Figs. 73 and 74, which are reduced from hispatent drawings, of a shell of cyl
A history of the growth of the steam-engine . n HancockCounty, Me., after his removal to that State in 1807. Hedied in Belfast, Me., in 1849, at the age of ninety years. In the year 1788 he became interested in the problemof steam-navigation, and learned something of the work ofFitch. He first attempted to design a boiler that should bestrong, light, and compact, as well as safe. His first planwas that of the Portable Furnace-Boiler, as he called it;it was patented August 26,1791. As designed, it consisted,as seen in Figs. 73 and 74, which are reduced from hispatent drawings, of a shell of cylindrical form, like thenow common vertical tubular boiler. A is the furnace-door, B a heater and feed-water reservoir, D a pipe leading Rev. Cyrus Mann, in the Boston JRecorder, 1858. * Westcott. STEAM-NAVIGATION. 245 the feed-water into the boiler, E the smoke-pipe, and Fthe steam-pipe leading to the engine. G is the shell ofthe boiler, and H the fire-box. The crown-sheet, II, hasdepending from it, in the furnace, a set of water-tubes, h % Mil B 3 A ? .
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