Farm Engines & How To Run Them, Reading 1
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The Locomotive Fire Tube Type of Boiler
The object of all these improvements was to get larger heating surface. To make steam rapidly and economically the heating surface must be as large as possible. But there is a limit in that the boiler must not be cumbersome. It must carry enough water and have sufficient space for steam. The stationary boiler now most commonly used is cylindrical. Fire is built in a brick furnace under the sheet and returns through fire tubes running the length of the boiler.
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