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Flued boiler

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A shell or flued boiler is an early and relatively simple form of boiler used to make steam, usually for the purpose of driving a steam engine. [1]

57 relations: Blackett of Wylam, Blastpipe, Boiler, Boiler explosion, Boiler stay, Brick, Cast iron, Chimney, Coalbrookdale, Cotton mill, Dolcoath mine, Eaton Hall Railway, Fairbairn-Beeley boiler, Fire-tube boiler, Flue, Flue gas, Furnace, Gateshead, Glossary of boiler terms, Huber, James Watt, John Blenkinsop, Kidney, Lancashire Witch, Launch-type boiler, Leeds Forge Company, List of boiler types, by manufacturer, Locomotion No. 1, Marion, Ohio, Middleton Railway, Model engineering, Museum of Science and Industry (Manchester), Newcastle upon Tyne, Pennines, Penydarren, Puffing Billy (locomotive), Rainhill Trials, Richard Trevithick, Robert Stephenson, Samson (locomotive), Sans Pareil, Science Museum, London, Scotch marine boiler, Smokebox, Steam, Steam engine, Steam locomotive, Timothy Hackworth, Traction engine, W & J Galloway & Sons, ..., Water-tube boiler, William Fairbairn, William Hedley, Wrought iron, Wylam, Wylam Dilly, 0-4-0. Expand index (7 more) »

Blackett of Wylam

The Blacketts of Wylam were a branch of the Blackett family of Hoppyland, County Durham, England and were related to the Blackett baronets.

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Blastpipe

The blastpipe is part of the exhaust system of a steam locomotive that discharges exhaust steam from the cylinders into the smokebox beneath the chimney in order to increase the draught through the fire.

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Boiler

A boiler is a closed vessel in which fluid (generally water) is heated.

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Boiler explosion

A boiler explosion is a catastrophic failure of a boiler.

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Boiler stay

A boiler stay is an internal structural element used inside boilers.

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Brick

A brick is building material used to make walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction.

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Cast iron

Cast iron is a group of iron-carbon alloys with a carbon content greater than 2%.

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Chimney

A chimney is a structure that provides ventilation for hot flue gases or smoke from a boiler, stove, furnace or fireplace to the outside atmosphere.

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Coalbrookdale

Coalbrookdale is a village in the Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire, England, containing a settlement of great significance in the history of iron ore smelting.

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Cotton mill

A cotton mill is a factory housing powered spinning or weaving machinery for the production of yarn or cloth from cotton, an important product during the Industrial Revolution when the early mills were important in the development of the factory system.

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Dolcoath mine

Dolcoath mine (Bal Dorkoth was a copper and tin mine in Camborne, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Its name derives from the Cornish for 'Old Ground', and it was also affectionately known as The Queen of Cornish Mines. The site is north-west of Carn Brea. Dolcoath Road runs between the A3047 road and Chapel Hill. The site is south of this road.

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Eaton Hall Railway

The Eaton Hall Railway was an early gauge minimum gauge estate railway built in 1896 at Eaton Hall in Cheshire.

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Fairbairn-Beeley boiler

The Fairbairn-Beeley boiler was a design of fire-tube stationary boiler developed in the late 19th century.

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Fire-tube boiler

A fire-tube boiler is a type of boiler in which hot gases pass from a fire through one or (many) more tubes running through a sealed container of water.

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Flue

A flue is a duct, pipe, or opening in a chimney for conveying exhaust gases from a fireplace, furnace, water heater, boiler, or generator to the outdoors.

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Flue gas

Flue gas is the gas exiting to the atmosphere via a flue, which is a pipe or channel for conveying exhaust gases from a fireplace, oven, furnace, boiler or steam generator.

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Furnace

A furnace is a device used for high-temperature heating.

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Gateshead

Gateshead is a town in Tyne and Wear, England, on the southern bank of the River Tyne opposite Newcastle upon Tyne.

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Glossary of boiler terms

Boilers for generating steam or hot water have been designed in countless shapes, sizes and configurations.

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Huber

Huber is a surname of German language origin.

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James Watt

James Watt (30 January 1736 (19 January 1736 OS) – 25 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1781, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world.

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John Blenkinsop

John Blenkinsop (1783 – 22 January 1831) was an English mining engineer and an inventor of steam locomotives, who designed the first practical railway locomotive.

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Kidney

The kidneys are two bean-shaped organs present in left and right sides of the body in vertebrates.

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Lancashire Witch

Lancashire Witch was an early steam locomotive built by Robert Stephenson and Company in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1828.

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Launch-type boiler

A launch-type, gunboat or horizontal multitubular boiler is a form of small steam boiler.

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Leeds Forge Company

The Leeds Forge Company manufactured corrugated furnaces for marine steam engine boilers and later, pressed steel railway vehicles, in Leeds, England.

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List of boiler types, by manufacturer

There have been a vast number of designs of steam boiler, particularly towards the end of the 19th century when the technology was evolving rapidly.

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Locomotion No. 1

Locomotion No.

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Marion, Ohio

Marion is a city in and the county seat of Marion County, Ohio, United States.

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Middleton Railway

The Middleton Railway is the world's oldest continuously working public railway, situated in the English city of Leeds.

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Model engineering

Model engineering is the pursuit of constructing proportionally-scaled working representations of full-sized machines in miniature.

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Museum of Science and Industry (Manchester)

The Museum of Science and Industry (MSI or formerly known as MOSI) in Manchester, England, is a large museum devoted to the development of science, technology and industry with emphasis on the city's achievements in these fields.

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Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne, commonly known as Newcastle, is a city in Tyne and Wear, North East England, 103 miles (166 km) south of Edinburgh and 277 miles (446 km) north of London on the northern bank of the River Tyne, from the North Sea.

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Pennines

The Pennines, also known as the Pennine Chain or Pennine Hills, are a range of mountains and hills in England separating North West England from Yorkshire and North East England.

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Penydarren

Penydarren (Penydarren) is a community in Merthyr Tydfil County Borough in Wales.

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Puffing Billy (locomotive)

Puffing Billy is the world's oldest surviving steam locomotive,.

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Rainhill Trials

The Rainhill Trials were an important competition in the early days of steam locomotive railways, run in October 1829 for the nearly completed Liverpool and Manchester Railway.

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Richard Trevithick

Richard Trevithick (13 April 1771 – 22 April 1833) was a British inventor and mining engineer from Cornwall, England.

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Robert Stephenson

Robert Stephenson FRS (16 October 1803 – 12 October 1859) was an early railway and civil engineer.

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Samson (locomotive)

The Samson is an English-built railroad steam locomotive made in 1838 that ran on the Albion Mines Railway in Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Sans Pareil

Sans Pareil is a steam locomotive built by Timothy Hackworth which took part in the 1829 Rainhill Trials on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, held to select a builder of locomotives.

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Science Museum, London

The Science Museum is a major museum on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London.

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Scotch marine boiler

A "Scotch" marine boiler (or simply Scotch boiler) is a design of steam boiler best known for its use on ships.

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Smokebox

A smokebox is one of the major basic parts of a steam locomotive exhaust system.

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Steam

Steam is water in the gas phase, which is formed when water boils.

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Steam engine

A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.

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Steam locomotive

A steam locomotive is a type of railway locomotive that produces its pulling power through a steam engine.

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Timothy Hackworth

Timothy Hackworth (22 December 1786 – 7 July 1850) was a steam locomotive engineer who lived in Shildon, County Durham, England and was the first locomotive superintendent of the Stockton and Darlington Railway.

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Traction engine

A traction engine is a self-propelled steam engine used to move heavy loads on roads, plough ground or to provide power at a chosen location.

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W & J Galloway & Sons

W & J Galloway and Sons was a British manufacturer of steam engines and boilers based in Manchester, England.

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Water-tube boiler

A high pressure watertube boiler (also spelled water-tube and water tube) is a type of boiler in which water circulates in tubes heated externally by the fire.

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William Fairbairn

Sir William Fairbairn, 1st Baronet of Ardwick (19 February 1789 – 18 August 1874) was a Scottish civil engineer, structural engineer and shipbuilder.

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William Hedley

William Hedley (13 July 1779 – 9 January 1843) was born in Newburn, near Newcastle upon Tyne.

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Wrought iron

puddled iron, a form of wrought iron Wrought iron is an iron alloy with a very low carbon (less than 0.08%) content in contrast to cast iron (2.1% to 4%).

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Wylam

Wylam is a small village about west of Newcastle upon Tyne.

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Wylam Dilly

Wylam Dilly is the second oldest surviving railway locomotive in the world; it was built circa 1815 by William Hedley and Timothy Hackworth for Christopher Blackett, the owner of Wylam colliery, west of Newcastle upon Tyne.

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0-4-0

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents one of the simplest possible types, that with two axles and four coupled wheels, all of which are driven.

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Centre-flue boiler, Cornish boiler, Huber boiler, Lancashire boiler, Return flue boiler, Return-flue boiler, Shell boiler.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flued_boiler

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