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Take a good Galloway or multitubular boiler; for 75 horse power effective the heating surface must be at least 74 square feet.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891 Various

Between the destructor and the chimney a multitubular boiler is placed, which makes steam enough for grinding into sand the clinkers which are the solid residue of the burnt refuse.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 Various

Figs. 86 and 87 are respectively end and side elevations of a multitubular boiler having over 600 square inches of heating surface -- most of it contributed by the tubes -- and intended for firing with solid fuel.

Things To Make Archibald Williams

The distinguishing features of the Rocket, the first high-speed locomotive of the standard modern type, were the multitubular boiler, which was not Stephenson's invention, but was first applied by him to locomotives; the blast pipe; and the direct connection of the steam cylinders to one axle, and one pair of wheels.

Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail Harry A. Lewis

On several of the plantations horizontal multitubular boilers externally fired were installed and at the time were considered the acme of perfection.

Steam, Its Generation and Use

-- The boiler described on pp. 211-216, or a vertical multitubular boiler with about 800 sq. inches of heating surface will drive this engine satisfactorily.

Things To Make Archibald Williams

These have developed into the cylindrical, multitubular boiler and the triple expansion engine, in which a greater percentage of the power of the steam is utilized and four or five times the work obtained from coal over that of the old system.

Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters 1912

Modern boilers have smaller tubes and more of them, but "The Rocket" was the first to typify the modern multitubular boiler.

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

A working model of the steam-coach was perfected, embracing a multitubular boiler for quickly raising high-pressure steam, with a revolving surface condenser for reducing the steam to water again, by means of its exposure to the cold draught of the atmosphere through the interstices of extremely thin laminations of copper plates.

Men of Invention and Industry Samuel Smiles 1858

It was the simple but admirable contrivance of the steam-blast, and its combination with the multitubular boiler, that at once gave the locomotive a vigorous life, and secured the triumph of the railway system.

Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Samuel Smiles 1858