Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Transactions, 1904
In steam raising plants we have the water tube boiler, which is suitable for coal or gas firing, connected to producers, blast furnaces, or destructors, competing with the cylindrical type of boiler both on land and sea. We have mechanical fuel handling machinery in the form of stokers, conveyors, elevators, bunkers, as against hand firing and hand labour generally. We have steel pipes replacing cast-iron pipes, and also copper pipes for certain purposes. In connection with fuel for steam raising, we have oil competing with coal. Briquettes made from small coal and other materials, which would otherwise be practically wasted, and even towns' refuse is utilised as fuel.
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