Excerpt from Useful Things to Know About Steam Boilers
The following pages were mostly compiled from various authorities, for the use of Owners, Steam Users, and Engineers, at the request of the American Steam Boiler Insurance Company of New-York,
This has no pretensions to be a compendious or exhaustive treatise, but is intended simply to afford some information in regard to the salient points of advantage or disadvantage offered by the different styles of boilers, to make better known the "modus operandi" of combustion in a boiler-furnace, the operations going on inside of a boiler (often resulting in corrosion and incrustation), and the best methods of managing and taking care of boilers.
There is a short explanation in regard to explosions, and such illustrations have been inserted as it is hoped will aid in the elucidation of the subjects treated upon.
Some useful miscellaneous facts, and some tables for shortening the labor of calculation, etc., will be found in the Appendix.
A list of the books more frequently consulted, and of which free use has been made, is annexed, to enable those so desiring to study the subject in its entirety.
Of course there is some original matter, but it forms only a small part of the whole.
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