steam-pipes

Floating platforms, moved by steam, with space in the middle part for twelve or fourteen carriages and horses, and luxurious covered apartments, heated with steam-pipes on either side, ply to and fro every five minutes at the small charge of one halfpenny a passenger, and the time occupied in crossing the ferries is often less than that of the detention on Westminster Bridge.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

A draught of cold air is continually forced through a large apparatus of steam-pipes, and, as it becomes vitiated in the rooms above, passes out through ventilators placed just below the ceiling.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

After encountering more than the usual crush in Broadway, for we were rather more than an hour in driving three miles in a stage, we crossed the Brooklyn Ferry in one of those palace ferry-boats, where the spacious rooms for passengers are heated by steam-pipes, and the charge is only one cent, or a fraction less than a halfpenny.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

For me it crawled towards Kurtz -- exclusively; but when the steam-pipes started leaking we crawled very slow.

Heart of Darkness 1960

In this library the atmosphere has the usual humidity of that out of doors, being warmed by bringing the outer air in over pipes conveying hot water, while the other libraries have the higher heat of steam-pipes.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. Various

The hoarse panting of the steam-pipes, the clangor of bells, the splashing of the paddle-wheels, died away in the distance as I stood upon the landing watching the receding boat steaming down the Alabama

Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War Fannie A. Beers

The air is either drawn or forced by means of quickly revolving fans through a cylinder placed in a horizontal position and containing steam coils, or passed over steam-pipes laid under the iron grating forming the floor of the chamber.

The Handbook of Soap Manufacture H. A. Appleton

The roar of the steam-pipes ceased, the throb of the engines struck the water, and the great steamer steamed away from the quay and out of the plain of the harbor into a wide world of gray waves and wind and rain.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 Various

How many fires (cause unknown?) have really originated from the slow carbonizing of organic material on steam-pipes?

The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890 Various

In view of the advisability of not having any organic or combustible material near the generator, the solid substances just mentioned may preferably be replaced by one of those partially inorganic compositions sold for "lagging" steam-pipes and engine-cylinders, such as "Fossil meal."

Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield