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    A fire-tube boiler is a type of boiler invented in 1828 by Mark Seguin, in which hot gases pass from a fire through one or more tubes running through...
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    A vertical fire-tube boiler or vertical multitubular boiler is a vertical boiler where the heating surface is composed of multiple small fire-tubes, arranged...
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    A vertical boiler is a type of fire-tube or water-tube boiler where the boiler barrel is oriented vertically instead of the more common horizontal orientation...
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    A vertical boiler with horizontal fire-tubes is a type of small vertical boiler, used to generate steam for small machinery. It is characterised by having...
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    watertube boiler (also spelled water-tube and water tube) is a type of boiler in which water circulates in tubes heated externally by fire. Fuel is burned...
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  • A Field-tube boiler (also known as a bayonet tube) is a form of water-tube boiler where the water tubes are single-ended. The tubes are closed at one...
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    The Sentinel boiler was a design of vertical boiler, fitted to the numerous steam wagons built by the Sentinel Waggon Works. The boiler was carefully designed...
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  • (1901). Water-tube boilers. p. 38. "One Atmosphere Boiler - Superheated Steam Boiler". Micropyretics Heaters Industrial. Harris, Model Boilers, pp. 63–64...
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    A cross-tube boiler was the most common form of small vertical boiler. They were widely used, in the age of steam, as a small donkey boiler, for the independent...
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    A thimble tube boiler is a form of steam boiler, usually provided as an auxiliary boiler or heat-recovery boiler. They are vertical in orientation and...
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  • generated in a vertical fire-tube boiler, mounted beneath the seat, with a vaporizing gasoline (later, kerosene) burner underneath. The boiler was reinforced...
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  • water-tube boilers, carrying unheated cold water from the steam drum down to the water drum as part of the circulation path. Drowned tube Either a fire-tube...
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    High-pressure steam locomotive (category Water-tube boilers)
    operated at 500 psi (3.45 MPa) and the boilers were tested to 1,200 psi (8.27 MPa). The vertical fire-tube boiler was wound with piano wire, and the connecting...
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    Spiral water-tube boilers are a family of vertical water-tube boilers. Their steam generating tubes are narrow spiral tubes, arranged in circular fashion...
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    Three-drum boilers are a class of water-tube boiler used to generate steam, typically to power ships. They are compact and of high evaporative power, factors...
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  • electricity transformer Venus Flytrap, a variety of carnivorous plant Vertical fire-tube boiler, a heat-transfer device used in steam engines Very Fast Train...
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    gained early fame with its water tube boilers. The company built and put into service the first black liquor recovery boiler in the world in 1929. This was...
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    Yarrow boilers are an important class of high-pressure water-tube boilers. They were developed by Yarrow & Co. (London), Shipbuilders and Engineers and...
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    on the axle. A vertical fire-tube boiler was mounted at the rear with a polished copper casing over the fire box and chimney, the boiler was enclosed in...
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    boiler. Package boilers are commonly called water or fire tube boilers. Water tube boilers use convection heating, which draws the heat from the fire...
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    contemporary boiler, such as the Yarrow. Small examples of the O-type are used as some package boilers. Most package boilers are fire-tube boilers, often used...
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    Firebox (steam engine) (category Steam boiler components)
    pulled through a rack of tubes running through the boiler. In the standard steam locomotive fire-tube boiler, the firebox is surrounded by water space on five...
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    This was followed by a number of undertype steam wagons using a vertical fire-tube boiler. By 1905 they had also begun to build petrol-engined wagons. The...
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    The Stirling boiler is an early form of water-tube boiler, used to generate steam in large land-based stationary plants. Although widely used around 1900...
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    The Fairbairn-Beeley boiler was a design of fire-tube stationary boiler developed in the late 19th century. It takes its name from its two developers,...
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    the du Temple boiler. These differed from locomotive boilers, also known as "fire tube boilers", in that, whereas the fire tube boiler consisted of a...
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    manner of a condensing (gas) boiler. In the earliest and most popular form, wood is gravity-fed into a "J-shaped" combustion tube, from where the hot gases...
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    The Johnson boiler was the first of the O-type boilers, a class of water-tube boilers characterised by single steam and water drums vertically above each...
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    Receives the hot gases that have passed from the firebox through the boiler tubes and, when the throttle/regulator is open, directs them and steam exhausting...
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    feature of the boiler was that the fire-tubes were entirely submerged. Competing vertical boilers of the period had semi-submerged tubes with their upper...
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