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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), H. (search)
career of usefulness. Stephenson's first locomotive was built after seeing Trevethick's, as improved by Blackett for Lord Ravensworth's colliery, in 1814, and had grooved sheaves to increase adherence. Locomotives on Stephenson's plan were used on the Stockton and Darlington Railway, opened in 1825. Stephenson's Rocket was successful over three other competitors in the trial on the rails of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1829. It used the multitubular boiler by the suggestion of Mr. Booth of that railway company, also the exhaustblast in the chimney, invented by Trevethick. Hackworth's Sanspareil had a cylindrical flue-boiler on the Evans plan, and a very effective exhaustblast in chimney. The Rocket's competitors broke down at various points in the trial. Stephenson was an excellent workman. The very insincere book called the Life of Stephenson ignores most of these facts, and pettifogs the whole case; it is about as one-sided an affair as Abbott's Life of Saint Napole
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), L. (search)
, and now he enjoys the company of his elder brother, Hedley's Puffing Billy, in the English Patent Museum. In Fig. 2986, A is an elevation of the Rocket. The boiler a is a cylinder 6 feet long, and has 25 tubes. This feature was due to Mr. Henry Booth, though a tubular boiler had been patented by M. Seguin in France, in 1828. The fire-box b has two tubes, communicating with the boiler below and above, and is surrounded by an exterior casing, into which the water from the boiler flows andils and fats are of course understood as the first lubricants likely to have been employed. Among English recipes for the purpose we find: 1. Blacklead, 1; tallow 4. Mix and grind perfectly smooth. Add beeswax for railroad carriages. 2. (Booth's.) Scotch soda, 1 pound; boiling water, 2 gallons; palm-oil or tallow, 10 pounds. Agitate till the mixture is cooled to 65° Fah. 3. (Mankettrick's.) Caoutchouc dissolved in oil of turpentine, 4 pounds; Scotch soda, 10 pounds; glue, 1 pound
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
m, England. b′, London and Brighton, England. c′, Midland counties, England. d′, contractor's rail. e′, street-car rail. f′, locomotive street-rail. g′, continuous rail. h′, tubular rail. j′, King's rail, with steel cap. k′, Potter's rail, with steel facing rolled in. l′, Hymer's rail, with a steel upper section, iron foot, and fish-plates. m′, Ashcroft's rail, with a steel tread and double foot. n′, Jones's rail, with a steel tread and forked foot. o′, Booth's rail, with an overlapping steel tread-plate See fagot: Fig. 1914, page 823. p′, Losh's fish-bellied rail and chair (1816); the rail fastened with keys. q′, Brunton and Shield's rail and chair. r′, English rail and chair, 1840. s′, Samuel's cast-iron sleeper. t′, Barlow's rail (English). u′, tubular socketed rail. v′, Seaton's saddle-rail. w′, elastic rail. x′, Pierce's rail, on high standard. y′, Greave's pot-sleeper.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
ue.)646LyonJan. 4, 1859. 24,737HenselJuly 12, 1859. 25,087BoothAug. 10, 1859. 25,730Grover et al.Oct. 11, 1859. 25,876BartsonOct. 25, 1859. 25,963Fosket et al.Nov. 1, 1859. 28,959BoothJuly 3, 1860. 30,031WashburnSept. 11, 1860. 31,829RossMar.HalliganAug. 18, 1863. 57,514IngrahamAug. 28, 1866. 65,052Booth et al.May 28, 1867. 111,678PrattFeb. 7, 1871. 116,113Stra1GriestMar. 11, 1873. 138,064YeutzerApr. 22, 1873. 138,371BoothApr. 29, 1873. 138,638Goodrich et al.May 6, 1873. (Reiet of machinery in which argentiferous ores are treated. Booth's silver-mill (dry process). Fig. 5096 is a view of a ss in Fig. 5096, but is shown clearly in the next figure. Booth's silver-mill (wet process). Fig. 5097 shows the wet pr perspective view of an engine manufactured by Woodbury and Booth, Rochester, N. Y. b. A form of engine for drawing carrias Sanspareil. The inventor of the small boilerflues was Henry Booth, the Secretary of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway C
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
n the latter, but impinges on the outside of a tube. See Plate LXI. Napier's tubular boiler. Oliver Evans's boiler had a number of small watertubes, able to bear a great pressure and exposing a relatively large heating surface. Alban's boiler (Fig. 2685, B) was on the same principle, with the additional idea of dropping into the vertical tubes small charges of water which instantaneously flashed into steam. See also Fig. 5629, Plate LXI., and in-Stantaneous generator, page 1190. Booth and Stephenson's locomotive Rocket had 25 copper flue-tubes, 3 inches in diameter, open at one end to the chimney and to the fire-box at the other. As many as 303 flue-tubes are employed in the Great Western engine, England. See also steam-boiler, Plate LXI. The Anderson Tubulous boiler (mast, Foos, & Co., Springfield, O.). In tubular marine boilers, the flame and hot gases from the furnaces are led through a great number of small flue-tubes (of iron or brass), completely surround