Maxims and Instructions for the Boiler Room

Maxims and Instructions for the Boiler Room is described as useful to engineers, firemen and mechanics, relating to steam generators, pumps, appliances, steam heating and practical plumbing, among others. The book says it comprises instructions and suggestions on the construction, setting, control and management of various forms of steam boilers, among other subjects. The text says that air is made of two gases called nitrogen and oxygen, with 79 parts of nitrogen and 21 parts of oxygen in 100 parts or volumes of air.

A table of evaporation is explained with the example that one lb. coal has an average evaporative capacity of 14.62 lbs. of water. The text says that a boiler burning wood or tan needs to be much larger than one burning petroleum oil. A part headed fuel economizer and feed water purifier says the device, shown in Fig. 93, is designed to utilize the waste products of combustion as they pass from the furnace to the chimney. The index has an entry for steam boilers with subentries on, among others, locomotive boilers, the use of petroleum in them, the effect of sugar on them, and corrosion and incrustation.