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" Other engines with boilers of a variety of construction, were made, all having in view the increase of the heating surface, as it then became obvious to my father that the speed of the engine could not be increased without increasing the evaporative power... "
The Life of Robert Stephenson...: With Descriptive Chapters on Some of His ... - Page 127
by John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1866
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The Life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer

Samuel Smiles - 1857 - 576 pages
...other engines), small tubes containing water, by which the heating surface was materially inereased. Two engines with such tubes were constructed for the...surface, as it then became obvious to my father that the * Lobct, Da Chcmint de Per de France, 1845. 286 LIFE OF GEORGE SXEPHENSON. [CHAP. xxn. speed of the...
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The Life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer

Samuel Smiles - 1858 - 590 pages
...been done in other engines), small tubes containing water, by which the heating surface was materially increased. Two engines with such tubes were constructed...made, all having in view the increase of the heating * Lotict, Des Chemins dc Fer <Ie France, 1845. CHAP. xxii.] THE MULT1TUBULAR BOILER. 289 surface, as...
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Lives of the Engineers: With an Account of Their Principal Works, Volume 3

Samuel Smiles - 1862 - 792 pages
...before in other engines) — small tubes, containing water, by which the heating surface was materially increased. Two engines with such tubes were constructed...for the St. Etienne Railway in France, which was in process of construction in the year 18'J8; but the exj>edient was not successful — the tubes became...
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Lives of the Engineers, with an Account of Their Principal Works ..., Volume 3

Samuel Smiles - 1862 - 552 pages
...constructed for the St. Etienne Railway in France, which was in process of construction in the year 1Sl;S; but the expedient was not successful — the tubes became furred with deposit and burned out. " Ofher engines with boilers of a variety of construction were made, all having in view the increase...
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Transactions of the Institution of Naval Architects, Volume 3

Royal Institution of Naval Architects - 1862 - 286 pages
...son, the late lamented Robert Stephenson, observed, " Other engines with a variety of constructions were made, all having in view the " increase of the heating surface, as it became obvious to my father that the speed of the " engine could not be increased without increasing...
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On the steam generating power of marine and locomotive boilers, Volume 7

Charles Wye Williams - 1864 - 52 pages
...Stephenson in his first locomotive, the Rocket. His son, the late Kobert Stephenson, observed "Other engines were made, all " having in view the increase of the heating surface, as it became obvious to my father " that the speed of the engine could not be increased without increasing...
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Rail, Steam, and Speed: The "Rocket" and the Birth of Steam Locomotion

Christopher McGowan - 2004 - 410 pages
...had built two such locomotives for the St Etienne Railway in France, but as Robert Stephenson wrote: 'the expedient was not successful; the tubes became furred with deposit, and burned out.' Booth's idea was for a multi-tubular boiler where a large number of 3 in.-diameter copper tubes would...
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