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    A round-topped boiler is a type of boiler used for some designs of steam locomotive and portable engine. It was an early form of locomotive boiler, although...
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    stronger round-topped firebox with its wrapper raised above the boiler barrel. One well-known locomotive that no longer uses a haycock boiler, despite...
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    firebox replacing the original round-topped boiler. Predominately in the first half of the 1910s, this non-superheated boiler was also fitted to a number...
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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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    Aspinall opted for a two-cylinder format with a non superheated round-topped boiler. David Joy's configuration of valve gear was employed. By the time...
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    means of girders, or stays) compared to a round-top. However, the use of a similarly shaped square outer boiler shell allows simpler perpendicular stays...
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    Rhymney Railway R class excepting a round-topped boiler. When rebuilt by the GWR they acquired GWR Belpaire boilers. The B & M also borrowed from the Rhymney...
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    tanks retained the older round-topped boiler instead. A few American locomotives used saddle tanks that only covered the boiler barrel, forward of the firebox...
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  • distinctive tapered boiler of Flamme's design. Flamme used the large Belgian loading gauge to its most and made the round-topped boiler particularly high...
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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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    station in 1945. A decommissioned and abandoned round-topped boiler in Kuala Balai. A restored round-topped boiler on display at Seria Energy Lab. Road and railway...
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  • the 4-4-0 Belpaires, but this firebox was wider than the previous round-topped boiler and there was insufficient space for it between the tall single drivers...
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    the Belpaire boiler type followed to form Class G58. The class was superheated between 1915 and 1932. From 1921, all the round-top boilers were replaced...
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    In archaeology or anthropology, a pot boiler or cooking stone is a heated stone used to heat water - typically by people who did not have access to pottery...
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    were superheated from the outset. The 36 class in original form had a round-top boiler rather than the Belpaire type. In the early to mid-1950s, the majority...
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    Cylinders 17 in × 24 in (432 mm × 610 mm) As built, they had domeless boilers with round-top fireboxes, and side tanks. Between 1894 and 1906 all but two (nos...
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  • built with Class "B" boilers (4 ft 3 in (1,300 mm) diameter over the largest ring, round-top firebox), and replacement boilers were normally of the same...
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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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    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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    A boiler or steam generator is a device used to create steam by applying heat energy to water. Although the definitions are somewhat flexible, it can be...
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    apparatus and cross-compound air compressors. The copper firebox round-top boilers the original eleven locomotives were built with, prone to priming...
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  • "Boiler" is a song by the American rap rock band Limp Bizkit. It was released in July 2001 as the fifth and final single from their third studio album...
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    evolved the design to include a square-topped Belpaire firebox. The H88 class of 1923 featured a larger superheated boiler, leading them to be known as Super...
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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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  • new boiler was fitted in 1899, having a diameter of 4 ft 5 in (1,350 mm) and a working pressure of 165 lbf/in2 (1,140 kPa); this had a round-topped firebox...
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    adoption of the Walschaerts valve gear on Italian locomotives. The round-topped boiler on the first 49 units had standard tubes; however, on the last 20...
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    1930s, many serving locomotives were reboilered with a standard round-topped boiler type, designed by then Chief Mechanical Engineer A.G. Watson as part...
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  • S class was not modified with Belpaire fireboxes, and retained its round-top boiler shape. During dynamometer car testing with S301 in 1937, a maximum...
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    had bells fitted beneath the boiler. Seven of the remaining engines were re-built with Barton Wright type round top boilers around the 1917–1919 period...
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    stoker or boilerman is a person who tends the fire for the running of a boiler, heating a building, or powering a steam engine. Much of the job is hard...
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