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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container—and this cylindrical tank may be either horizontal or vertical. This type of boiler was used on virtually all steam locomotives in the horizontal...
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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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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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Tank locomotive (section Vertical boiler locomotives)
and son. Abbott, Rowland Aubrey Samuel; Lowe, James Wensley (1989). Vertical Boiler Locomotives and Railmotors Built in Great Britain. Oakwood Press....
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There have been a vast number of designs of steam boiler, particularly towards the end of the 19th century when the technology was evolving rapidly. A...
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A high pressure watertube boiler (also spelled water-tube and water tube) is a type of boiler in which water circulates in tubes heated externally by...
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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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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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Lancashire boiler. Gauge glass part of the water level gauge, which normally consists of a vertical glass tube connected top and bottom to the boiler backplate...
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Recovery boiler is the part of kraft process of pulping where chemicals for white liquor are recovered and reformed from black liquor, which contains lignin...
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barge.[citation needed] It usually has a vertical boiler placed at the back so that the weight of the boiler counterbalances the weight of the jib and...
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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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recently, Field-tube boilers have been most widely used by French manufacturers, either for small vertical boilers, or as a marine boiler. The use of this...
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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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surface and pre-dated other effective designs of vertical boiler, such as the Sentinel. The boiler consists of one long horizontal transverse drum, with...
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simultaneously. The East London Harbour's construction locomotives were 0-4-0 vertical boiler engines, similar in appearance to the American Grasshopper type. Four...
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the boiler. The boiler barrel had rivetted longitudinal seams, the vertical boiler had a curved, cylindrical top. A flat plate on top of the vertical boiler...
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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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Rack railway (category Vertical transport devices)
of today's rack railways are electrically powered. In some cases, a vertical boiler can be used that is less sensitive for the track gradient. On a rack-only...
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locally by Head Wrightson. These were small vertical-boilered well tank, with chain drive from a small vertical engine. Lyons locomotive was described in...
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and was given to SDP in 2013. 10 3083 Cockerill 1924 Type IVR with vertical boiler. The loco was built for Usine Gustave Boël, located in La Louvière...
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Firebox (steam engine) (category Steam boiler components)
longitudinal boiler, the top for a vertical boiler) and carry the hot gaseous products of combustion through the boiler water, heating it, before they escape...
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to always keep the boiler vertically oriented, no matter what the gradient of the track. Later designs introduced horizontal boilers, slanted so that they...
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locomotive to be put to use by the Treffry Estates was a small four-wheeled vertical boiler locomotive built by Sara and Burgess in Penryn in 1912 that arrived...
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rollers. United States-built 1924 Buffalo Springfield steam roller: a vertical boiler design with tandem rolls. Note position of firebox door, facing out...
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engine unit, contained the boiler. In smaller examples this may have been a vertical boiler, while in larger ones a tee boiler was employed. Class A Climaxes...
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Dorset Joint Railway (S&DJR) Sentinel locomotives were two small vertical-boilered, chain-driven steam locomotives for shunting. They were built by Sentinel...
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Steam locomotive (section Boiler)
slopes it may be more appropriate to consider a vertical boiler or one mounted such that the boiler remains horizontal but the wheels are inclined to...
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Sentinel geared vertical boilered tank engine No. 9365. Built in 1946. On static display. "Musketeer" Sentinel geared vertical boilered tank engine No...
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