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Identifier: americanengineer861newy (find matches)
Title: American engineer
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads Railroad cars
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Simmons-Boardman Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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Radial Stay Boiler Just as the Crown Sheet Gave Aw/ay. the direction of Dr. \\. F. M. Goss, and have very fully coveredthe comparative results for efficiency, capacity, water circulationand strength of the two boilers, which were identical in con-struction with the exception that one was fitted w-ith a Jacobs-Shupert firebox, while the other had a normal radial stay firebox.In preparation for this test, both boilers were placed on thecinder dump of the Lukens Iron & Steel Company, at a pointsufficiently far away from houses and other buildings to preventaccident in c;ise of the complete rupture of the boilers. Thisdump is located in a valley and the adjacent hillside offered asplendid position for the spectators. A grandstand was builtabout 2.500 ft. from the nearest boiler and here the invitedguests had an excellent view of the proceedings. A bomb-prootconsisting of a firebox tiuMied on its side was located about 250 July, 1912. AMERICAN ENGINEER. 367
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Interior of the Radial Stay Firebox After the Low Water Test. 368 AAFKRICAN ENGINEER. Vol. 86. No. 7. ft. frmii tlie boilers, and from this point the oil fuel, feed waterjninip and draft were controlled. Here also were mountedtelescopes through which the reading of the steam gage andthe water level gages were made. Telephonic coinmunicationbetween the bomb proof and the grandstand was arranged and.an announcer at the latter point gave continuous informationon the progress of the test. In addition, a large water leveland steam pressure indicator mounted near the bomb proofshowed the height of the water level and the amount of steampressure in the boders at all times. The Jacobs-Shupert boiler was tested first. At the beginning■of the test the water level stood 6 in. above the crown sheetand the steam pressure w-as 225 lbs. The feed water supplywas then shut off and part of the steam generated was used fordraft, the remainder being blown out through the three largepop valves set to cl

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vol. 86 no. 1
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  • bookid:americanengineer861newy
  • bookyear:1912
  • bookdecade:1910
  • bookcentury:1900
  • booksubject:Railroad_engineering
  • booksubject:Engineering
  • booksubject:Railroads
  • booksubject:Railroad_cars
  • bookpublisher:New_York__N_Y____Simmons_Boardman_Pub__Co
  • bookcontributor:Carnegie_Library_of_Pittsburgh
  • booksponsor:Lyrasis_Members_and_Sloan_Foundation
  • bookleafnumber:388
  • bookcollection:carnegie_lib_pittsburgh
  • bookcollection:americana
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