. American engineer and railroad journal . Fig. STEPHEN WILCOX BOILER, , 1889. Stephen Wilcox was the first person to use inclined tubesconnecting water spaces, front and rear, with an overhead 162 THE AMERICAN ENGINEER [April, iSgj. steam and wat< r reservoir (flg. 19). The tubes were benl al aslightly reversed curve, extending over nearly the whole lengthof the tube, but were Inaccessible Eor introduced a boiler (flg. 80) made up of a series of units placed side bv side, each unit consisting of .in upper mjM mm 11 II I 5|1. THE ROWAN BOILER. I86tBriti
. American engineer and railroad journal . Fig. STEPHEN WILCOX BOILER, , 1889. Stephen Wilcox was the first person to use inclined tubesconnecting water spaces, front and rear, with an overhead 162 THE AMERICAN ENGINEER [April, iSgj. steam and wat< r reservoir (flg. 19). The tubes were benl al aslightly reversed curve, extending over nearly the whole lengthof the tube, but were Inaccessible Eor introduced a boiler (flg. 80) made up of a series of units placed side bv side, each unit consisting of .in upper mjM mm 11 II I 5|1. THE ROWAN BOILER. I86tBritish Patent, 1865 and a lower horizontal drum connected by a series of bent-ended heating tubes, and at their ends outside the setting,with down-take pipes of large diameter. *
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