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In 1872 Lord's son-in-law William Addison Burnham joined the firm. Their first major commission came in the 1876 when California philanthropist James Lick hired the firm to create a 12,000-square-foot (1,100 m 2) conservatory similar to that in Kew Gardens. Its parts were fabricated in New York and shipped to California by boat around Cape Horn.
A large launch-type boiler with a corrugated furnace, described as the Lentz boiler, was fitted to the first Heilmann steam-electric locomotive ' La Fusée Electrique ' of 1890. [9] The boiler design was German in origin. A similar boiler, the 'Vanderbilt' was used in the USA. [10]
John B. Dyar, manager and owner of the Detroit Metal & Heating Works, was the main promoter. [1] Clarence M. Woolley joined the firm in 1887. [2] The Detroit Radiator Company was founded in 1882 by Henry C. and Charles C. Hodges. [1] The Pierce Steam Heating Company was founded in 1881 by John B. Pierce and Joseph Bond in Buffalo. [3]
Smithies boiler: A development of the pot boiler with added watertubes, used for model steam locomotives. [52] The boiler was invented by F. Smithies in 1900 and developed by Greenly. It consists of a cylindrical water drum hidden inside a larger drum that forms the visible part of the model.
Gibson appliance advertisement, 1948. Gibson was founded by Joshua Hall in Belding, Michigan, in 1877 as the Belding-Hall Company selling cabinets that housed blocks of ice ().
Other boilermakers might work seasonally or on an individual project such as re-fitting a boiler in a seagoing vessel or remodeling a steam plant. Boiler repair can be a high-value, high-cost service since even the smallest steam boilers for dry cleaners and tailors can cost upwards of $20,000 to replace. [citation needed]
The Schmidt-Henschel boiler was replaced with a tapered boiler, with a drumhead smokebox, designated type 2. [1] The type 2 boiler had a tube surface of 1,669 square feet, formed by tubes 2 + 1 ⁄ 8 inches (54 mm) in diameter and 14 ft 3 in (4.34 m) long. [2] It was fitted with a 28-row superheater with 360 square feet (33 m 2) of heating ...
The adoption of the name Atlantic for the class and subsequently the 4-4-2 wheelbase arrangement itself derives from name of the railroad they were supplied to. [2] The advantages of the "Atlantic" type led to several other designs around the start of the twentieth century adopting the 4-4-2 wheelbase for express passenger work including the Milwaukee Road class A2, Pennsylvania Railroad class ...