"Combustion chamber" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 8th. A combustion chamber so arranged that the combustion of the gases started in the furnace may be completed before the ...
— Steam, Its Generation and Use • Babcock & Wilcox Co.
... cast iron casing as a bed, and in this casing is placed a number of tubes through which the steam passes to be condensed, the whole being simply a surface condenser with engine and pump above. Another type is that of a small single-flued horizontal boiler with combustion chamber and twenty or thirty return tubes—in fact, the present high-pressure marine boiler on a small scale. A boiler of this sort, measuring 4 ft. to 5 ft. long, 3 ft. 9 in. to 4 ft. 6 in. diameter, would have a horizontal donkey engine on a bed at its side, and at the end ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 492, June 6, 1885 • Various |
