  THIS book of instruction on boiler-room practice will be of great help to firemen, engineers and all others who wish to learn about this important branch of Steam Engineering. It treats on materials, coals, wood, coke, and oil and gas, fuels, etc., their composition, properties, combustive value, also on combustion and evaporation. Giving the practical rules to be observed in firing with various fuels, management of steam boilers, prevention of foaming; tools and fire irons; covering stationary, marine and locomotive boilers. It enumerates sixty important points of cautions to be observed in the proper management of boilers. It contains a description of and full treatise on stationary, marine and locomotive boilers, and the historical development of boilers; specifications for boilers; riveting; bracing; rules for finding pressure or strain on bolts. It gives inspectors rules relating to braces in steam boilers. Also rules and tables for calculating areas and steam and water space of boilers. It treats on boiler tubes, construction and drawing of boiler sections; defects and necessary repairs; inspection of steam boilers; mechanical stokers’ corrosion and scale, boiler compounds, feed water heaters, injectors, pumps, boiler settings; pipes and piping; steam heating, chemistry of the furnace; boiler making; plumbing, and hundreds of other useful subjects. It states several plain rules for the calculation of safety valve problems and those sanctioned by the U. S. inspectors. MAXIMS AND INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE BOILER ROOM AUDEL & CO. The volume has 330 pages and 185 illustrations and diagrams. It is 6 × 81/2 in. in size and weighs 28 ounces. The binding is uniform with that of the “Calculations” and “Catechism of the Steam Engine,” being bound in heavy green cloth, with ornamental titles and edges in gold. PRICE, $2, Postpaid. THEO. AUDEL & CO., 63 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK |
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