Word: boilers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...steam launch is hauled up at Lawley's shipyard for the winter. The boiler and engine have been taken out and stored...
...feet, draft 30 inches aft, 18 inches for ward, cockpit for and aft, accommodation for from fifteen to twenty passengers. The hull is made of white cedar planking, copper fastened throughout, but the keel, frames and waining are made of white oak. The decks are of white pine. The boiler is of sectional steel pipe tested to four hundred pounds hydraulic pressure. The engine can develope fifty horse power at six hundred revolutions. A speed of six teen miles continuously on a consumption of one hundred pounds of coal an hour is guaranteed. A light canvas awning stretched over...
...Harvard launch, to be used in coaching the university eight, was successfully launched at the south yard of the builders, George Lawley & Son, South Boston, yesterday forenoon. The launch is fifty feet long, with bow fore and att, and is equipped with Hereschoff boiler and engines. She is considered capable of making fourteen knots an hour, and during the day made a successful trip down...
...plenty, which would leave three or more for the remaining rooms. To run these nine hundred lights would require one large dynamo or several smaller ones, which would cost six thousand dollars. To drive these there would be necessary a seventy-five horse power steam engine, which, with the boiler-house, et cetera, would cost about ten thousand dollars. Part of this expense might not be necessary, as the university already possesses two small engines near the Jefferson Laboratory, which could be used for the purpose. Leaving these out of the question, for though they would of course, reduce...
...tables of the Brunswick and Balke pattern. The billiard room will be fitted with every modern appliance, including cushioned seats, and will be finished in cherry, with a maple floor and inlaid ceiling of glass veneer. Under the extension at the rear of the building will be located the boiler room, in which will be placed a boiler of sufficient capacity to furnish steam heat for the whole building. The second floor will be taken up by two suites of rooms, each consisting of a bed-room and large study, with toilet and bath-room in common. Access to this...