Abstract
THE author of this work is well known from his published reports of experiments and investigations on steam generating plants; he has had experience with every type of mechanical stoker used in Great Britain, and his views as expressed in the volume before us may be taken as authoritative. Practically the whole of the modern principles of mechanical stoking were understood and applied on a large scale by the year 1845, when it began to be recognised that mechanical stoking, besides minimising black smoke, tended to do away with the laborious and unpleasant jobs of hand-firing and fire-cleaning. The book contains a large amount of excellent descriptive matter such as should be of value to the boiler owner, who may not be an engineer, in the understanding of the various types of stokers; sufficient also is given regarding the proper working conditions to be aimed at in the plant. The question of the efficient burning of coal is of national importance, and this little book should help to lead to a more intelligent appreciation of the problem.
Mechanical Stoking.
David
Brownlie
By. (Pitman's Technical Primers: Double volume.) Pp. x + 234. (London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd., 1923.) 5s. net.
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Mechanical Stoking. Nature 113, 923 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113923c0
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