. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . one in 1851 by A. , master mechanic of the Cumber-land Valley Railroad. August, 1904. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 347 INVENTORS OF SMOKE PREVENTING FIREBOXES. In Great Britain, nearly every locomo-tive superintendent became the inventorof a smoke consuming fire box, and thebest known patterns are here Clark jet arrangement, with open-ings through the walls of the fire boxthrough which currents of air were in-duced by steam jets, became the mostpopular form of smo
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . one in 1851 by A. , master mechanic of the Cumber-land Valley Railroad. August, 1904. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 347 INVENTORS OF SMOKE PREVENTING FIREBOXES. In Great Britain, nearly every locomo-tive superintendent became the inventorof a smoke consuming fire box, and thebest known patterns are here Clark jet arrangement, with open-ings through the walls of the fire boxthrough which currents of air were in-duced by steam jets, became the mostpopular form of smoke preventer, andwas used long after the more elaborate The invention was first applied as ashelf, straight across the fire box, andconsisted partly of fire brick and partlyof iron. The second one applied wasof common fire brick, 2x4x8 ins. each,forming an arch and supported by angleirons bolted to the side sheets. The third arch was composed of fourcurved blocks of fire brick 12 ins. wide,forming an arch which was supported onT-bolts which were screwed into theside sheets. The changes followed in. McCONNELLS COAL BUKNING FIRK BOX. FIG. 55.
Size: 2008px × 1244px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookidrailwaylocom, bookyear1901
