ICS Boilers - Types & Designs

by International Correspondence Schools
reprinted by Lindsay Publications

From 1907 you get three of the best sections on boilers from the same books that yielded "Steam Engine Design" described in our catalog.

In the first section you'll be introduced to stationary boilers of the horizontal shell, flue and tubular types. You'll explore horizontal return-tubular boilers, and boilers with names like Cornish, Galloway, and Clyde. You'll see the locomotive or firebox boiler, vertical tubular boilers, the Babcox-Wilcox, the Heine, the Stirling, the Hazelton, the Morrin Climax boiler and more.

You'll investigate boiler design: proportions, power, and construction. Then you'll be exposed to formulas that when used with a pocket calculator will give you hard answers to "what-if" questions. You'll learn how big you'll have to make the grate to get a certain number of horsepower, about iron and rivets, and about testing. You'll see both bolt and bracket boilers stays, as well as stays for both locomotive and marine boilers.

The formulas will give you ball park figures for strength of plates, the number of rivets you'll need, allowable pressures on direct stays, width and thickness of reinforcing rings, number of tubes in a horizontal tube-return boiler and much more.

This is NOT about building a particular boiler of a particular size. This is a textbook designed to introduce the 1907 apprentice to the state-of-the-art. If you decide to build a boiler, you'll want to consult modern expensive engineering texts for pressure vessel standards. It is essential that you learn what modern safety recommendations are now being made.

If steam is your thing, and you're just starting to think about a boiler, this is a must-have. Good book. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 softcover 134 pages

No. 22113 ... $9.95