RE: Re: [DL] Re: Steam needs water

[Frempath2@netscape.net]

Nice drawing,
You are correct in that boilers were sealed, that's why boiler explosions were so destructive, scattering lots of gooey red person parts for great distances.  The boiler did not contain all of the water, only that which was to be boiled at that instant, the rest was kept in the water tank.  Now for this topic I liked the idea of the sealed system.  Very, very primative air conditioning did exist at the time.  There were even a few large cities which advertised "Machine made Ice".  So the idea of radiator and condensor systems did exist and could be used to retain the water for a closed system.  Now if you had a catastrophic failure though....KABOOM.

g'day
frempath


Evil Robot Shane From Another Dimension <wishkah@redbrick.dcu.ie> wrote:
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> I'd imagine that the bit of the boiler that contains water is sealed
> (otherwise steam would go all over the place, instead of through the
> engine), so gases from the bit of the boiler that contains burning stuff
> wouldn't be able to get into the steam section.
>
> Steam comes out here
>    |
>    V
>  \   /
>   | |
>   | |
>   | |
>   | |
> Engine workings here, powered by steam going by
>   | |
>   | |
> __| |__
>|       |
>| Water |
>|_______|
>|       |____
>| Fire   ____ --> exhaust gases, including air-pocket steam
>|_______|
>
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