. Spons' dictionary of engineering, civil, mechanical, military, and naval; with technical terms in French, German, Italian, and Spanish . s E E. Thesecolumns are closed at the top, and an entablature is fixed on them, on which the chimney is water is let into the foundation-pipe B from a high level, so as to rise and fill the columnsE E, the use of the columns being to hold water and carry the chimney. Brackets a a are cast onthe columns to carry the plates 0, which hold the upper brickwork of the furnace. Upon the foun-dation Mr. Thomas builds, as usual, up to the bottom of the fur
. Spons' dictionary of engineering, civil, mechanical, military, and naval; with technical terms in French, German, Italian, and Spanish . s E E. Thesecolumns are closed at the top, and an entablature is fixed on them, on which the chimney is water is let into the foundation-pipe B from a high level, so as to rise and fill the columnsE E, the use of the columns being to hold water and carry the chimney. Brackets a a are cast onthe columns to carry the plates 0, which hold the upper brickwork of the furnace. Upon the foun-dation Mr. Thomas builds, as usual, up to the bottom of the furnace, as shown at F. He thenplaces water-boshes M M, of cast or wrought iron, all round the furnace, except at the front, wherethere is a door E, as is usual in cupola furnaces, or a dam, as in blast furnaces. These boshes areset back 4^ in. from the face of the furnace inside, to allow of a thickness of lining G of e then places another tier of water-boshes N above those just described ; these upper boshes goall round the furnace, or on all four sides. They have spikes 6 6 cast all over their inner sides, FURNACE. 1603. ^^,^1 .1 —I
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