The Steam Engine Familiarly Explained and Illustrated With an historical sketch of its invention and progressive improvement; its applications to navigation and railways; with plain axioms for railway speculators

CHAPTER VIII.

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BOILER AND ITS APPENDAGES.

Level Gauges. -- Feeding apparatus. -- Steam Gauge. -- Barometer Gauge. -- Safety Valves. -- Self-regulating Damper. -- Edelcrantz's Valve. -- Furnace. -- Smoke-consuming Furnace. -- Brunton's Self-regulating Furnace. -- Oldham's Modification. 117