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I have a pa tent for a mode of applying high pressure steam to vessels of the largest capacity; and u in this case all danger depends on the construction of the botler, I should _wish to say a liule on those boilers which I have found to be the most trust worthy. I come quite unprejudiced as to any material, and as to any form, for if I could meet with a boiler which would answer the purpose I have ia view better than that now used by me, I would adept it; therefore I shall give the Committee only such facts u have come within my own immediate knowledge. I have no wish to recommend any particular construction. Will you be so good as to state from your know ledge, what species of boiler for a high pressure en-, gine you would recommend in regard to safety t—l consider the first and most material point to attend to fn the construction of high pressure boilers is, that the diameter of such boilers should be small-in proportion , to their capacity ; and that as small a proportion of the external surface of the boiler as possible, should be exposed to the destructive action of the fire ; and that the proportion of the boiler so exposed should be so situated and guarded, that in case of explosion the least palatable mischief would arise. lulliose boilers which I have made me of, no portion of the boiler is exposed to the action of the Bre without its being con stantly covered with water; and the fire is applied under an arch of not more than two feet and a half in diameter k this provides against any extensive rent taking place in the event of explosion. The boilers I have generally empl o y e d, are constructe d o f malle ableiron, **moldy known by the name of charcoal , iron, rivetted.together and secored by suong wrought iron belts.. From observing the danger arising from the introdtlition of flat cast iron ends, I have termi nated the ends of the boilers by wrought iron ones, nearlrhemispherical ; this mode of construction, as far as my experience goes, combines more strength and durability than . any other. The precautions I have made use of to guard against the misuse of such boilers, have been by adapting to them two safety valves ; one under the controul of the engine man, the other secured in a strong cast iron ease, locked down and loaded with such a weight as would suffer the stea m to escape when it had arrived at an improper degree of expansive force. In order to add to the security given by safety valves, I have likewise in every instance 1 1 attached to the boiler a mercurial column, the bore of which is proportioned to the size of the boiler; and 1 should consider an iron tube of an inch diameter suf ficient to guard against accident, when applied to a boiler four feet in diameter and 20 feet in length, be. cause the limit given by such a column has always been far within the limit of absolute safety. The length of the external limb of the mercurial gauge has in all cases been proportioned to the strength of the boiler and the force to he applied, taking care that the 'expansive force of the steam would displace the mer corylong before any dangerous expansive force would I arise. In order to guard against the boilers being in. j tired by the action of the fire, from a deficient quantity of water in the boiler, I have inserted a leaden rivet in such a situation that it would melt as soon as it was covered by the water, and produce an opening which wt %Id suffer the escape of the steam. Although I has, made use of boilers of this construction, I con sider cast iron boilers sate, .provided their various parts are made of small diameters in proportion to their capacity; such for instance as those construc ted by Mr. Woolf. From your knowledge of the subject, do you think you can take,upon yourself to say, that a high pressure engine with a boiler constructed on the principles you have just now detailed, would be com pletely sate for the use of passage boats ?—I think equally safe with those called condensing engines, because a greater attention to strength is always paid in the construction of :sigh pressure boilers than in the construction of low pressure boilers, in propor tion to the pressure they have to sustiin. Have not very great improvements been recently Made in high pressure engines, by which the general mining and manufacturing interests of the country have been greatly benefited I think very im portant ones ; the high pressure engine, as con stricted by Mr. Woolf, employs nut only the ex pansive force of the steam, but also that power which is acquired by its condensation, and the effect in Cornwall has been, that engines on this construc tion have done double the quantity of work with the' , same quantity of fuel. Dees your own experience lead I you to conclude that the high pressure engine, in general, is less ex- I pensive in point of consumption of fuel ?—lf well constructed, they are decidedly economical engines with regard to the consumption of fuel. You mean then by this, that the advantage of the high pressure in point of economy in id.) is not con-1 fined to engines of any one particular construction Certainly; I mean it is net so confined. Have you any connection whatever with Mr. Woolf ?—None whatever; I am not personally known to him. Have you any reasm to suppose that the high pressure steam Engines' are already arrived at the degree of perfection of which they are susceptible ? Certainly not; Mr. Woolf s engine has been much simplified since its first invention, and my opinion is, it will be still farther improved. You would then consker any measure which should tend to impede the use of high pressure engines to be injurious to the country ?—Certainly, I should. Mr. War" Ghee/was was again called in at his own request, aul stated, that when he was asked as to lo comotive engines, he omitted to say that the diameter of their boiler was in general four feet, more or leas; that many of them are formed of cast iron, and seve ral of malleable iron, and that the ends of several of these latter are of cast iron curved outwards ; that in no one of them does the fire act upon the external part of the boiler, but is placed in a malleable iron tube which passes through the boner; a cast iron boiler, however, being found' far too heavy, the new loco motive engines are always supplied with malleable iron boilers. Al... Henry Mandedeyeafied in and retrained. What is your profession am an engineer. re siding at Lambeth. You comitruct Steam Enqiures t---Yes, a great many. Are you at all acquainted with the circumstances attending the explosion of the Steam Engine at Nor wich ?—Yes, I am. Have yo u been there since this accident ?—N.). Did yo u know the Steam Boats there before the acci dent t—Yes, because I made a steam boat fur Yar mouth. Wale the Steam Boat you made a high pressure or a low pressure eogine f—A low pressure engine. Will you be so good as to tell to the Committee, what it your opinion with regard to the proper con struction of those engines, to secure the passengers on bond those boats I—l never considered high pressure engines were applicable to boats, because the purpose of a high pressure engine is to save water, and water cannot be wanted on board a vessel ; the differance between the one and the other makes no saving either in the weight or expense, taking it ulti linately. particularly when Steam Boats are properly contrived. As far as my opinion goes as to Steam. Engines and Steam Boats, I would not go from here to Margate in a high pressure boat, because there are many reasons why that may become much more dan gerous, and no more advantageous to the public g e. nerally er to the individuals. A low pressure engine is of very high power ; a high pressure engine has ' higher power in proportion to its height of steam It is pretty well understood that a gentleman who en gages in a Steam Boat Companyseldom attends to :he engine himself, but leave it to his men. I built the Regent Steam Boat last summer with a low pressure ; there was a dispute between two men, and ore of them swore lie would blow his boiler on, but he would beat the Regent in coming up. The man cer tainly did exert llitiisdrdS much as he cnui,i, and kept hi s steam as high as he mild get it, and it flew out of the safety valve very frequently, and he hurt his boiler materially from doing so, but he did not !,;at tte Regent ; but if it had been a high pressure engine, he would either have beat her or blown up his boiler, because lie had the power in his own hind. Had it been a high pressure en ice. or.d the boiho. properly constructed, with suficiel:: safety valvn adapted to it, the operation of sod.'-11 the n on could not impede, would it have be'n liabic to accident ? I feel some difficulty in answering such a question as that, because I am afraid tharthere are so many tech nical terms in engine -making, and reasons why safety valves should be attended to, that I doubt whether they would not go to more evil by the man nut having access to them than by their being open to him. If there was one safety valve which was not accessi ble to the engineer, and another which was, would not that danger be prevented ?—I would beg to explain, by saying, that on board the Regent, which has a large boiler, I found it necessary to have two safety valves. and sometimes I put three safety valves; to make it quite easy for the man to move the valve. I have a sort of bell-lull going down to the place where he stokes, to poll it up every hour it he pleases, to keep it io ac tion, became it is clear thespindle may corrode and stick fast for want of use. Supposing it not touched once a week, it is not a safety valve any longer, because a very little friction will add a great many pounds weight to the opposition the steam ought to meet with. According to your experience and knowledge,woeld a low pressure engine be safe in most cases that can occur ?—I never knew a low pressure engine unsafe, but it appears that high pressure engines have been. Would a high pressure engine, under the same cir cumstances, be equally safe ?—Certain:y not. Do you conceive there is any difficulty in construct ing a safety valve in such a manner as that the engi. neer shall be able to k.:ep it in constant fitness ler as action, without having a power to tasten it down a , ol prevent it from acting ? I conceive that the same motile which would induce the engineer to work it ' with an improper pressure. would induce him to leave it untouched, that it might have an improper pres sure. I beg to state, that there is not that ditfeience between a high pressure and a low pressute engine, as to its power, that is generally supposed ; because it is understood, that the steam in the boiler is kept at from four to six pounds upon the inch. but front two and a half to tour is quite abundant for any use a low pressure engine can be wanted tor; then, it an engine is in any thing like working order, there is a vacuum formed by the engine itselt, by the construction, that causes an addition of 'Cabs. the inch. On the lowest calculition, those two added together, make !albs. ; if you take high pressure steam at 40Ibs. the inch, you do not, in my opinion, get additional force in proportion to the ri k incurred ; because we well know, that if the boiler be of cast•iion, faults will on. avoidably arise in casting which you cannot see, which cause explot lons or breaking:, and which could not be calculated upon. Is there any thing which prevents the engineer from fastening down or overweighting the valves of a common condensing engine ?—lt would be folly tor him to do so. Is there any thing which prevents him ?--Ccr tainly nut. Supposing the valves to be so fasten-d down, does not the engine immediately become unsafe ? Yes, certainly it must ; but it would be folly to Cas ten it down, because, if the engineer be at all ac quainted with his business, he must know, that if the steam be raised beyond live or six pciunch per inch in a condensing engine, the power of the engine will not thereby be at all increasea ; the condensing property of the engine does not consist in a higher pre►sure of steam. What is your opinion as to the comparative safety of cast and wrought metal used in boilers ?—I cons: : der that wrought mon is extremely sate, compared to cast iron. Then, at all events, it is your opinion, that in Steam Boats of wrought metal should be used in preference to ca'.l? —Nu ..uubt about it. D 3 you think there is ally material difference Ise tWeen the use of copper and wrou;:ht iron ?—No, ex. ceptiog in Ilse greater degrte of corrosion to vr!rich iron is liable. Are ;cm aware of there being any considerable dif ference in the comumption of coals, necessary to pro duce any given power an condensing and high pres sure engines ?--I consider that the one will work r% as little coal as the other ; in a ll hi g h pressure engi,l,:s and colitiens•ng engines I have heard of, I find little o r no difference, and those who have them tell rne they burn as much coal in the iiiqh pressure as in the law pressure engine. 1 ha v e understood f iat Woolf's engine does save coal. Do you know that to be thT fact ?—i do not, be cause I never attended any explrinwits ; !sat i have heard it from.so many people :ha I cannot but be lieve the fact is, they save coal=. If a high pressure Steam Engine had a wrought metal boiler, either of iron or c•Tper, conitr octet* by s competent engineer, with safe:y valves to proper order, and a mercurial gauge, shote.J you then thohk yourself in any danger on a Stesrr Boat propsli such an engine ?—Certainly not, if a conwer sea had ti.c superintendence of it. elic4l by lent pg. EDUCATION. THE REV. JOHN EVANS, A. M. assisted by Ms Soo, JOHN EVANS, A.M • of the University of Edin burgh, will swops, Co Algol , . 4th, his &military for a limited member of Pupils, No. 7. PuWu's Row, Islington. Forty Gul -1 near per Annum. No Entrance. Reference may be made to Dr. Abs. Rees, King's Rood; to Sir John Perrin,. But. and Co. as well as to Messrs. Grosvenor and Soo, Cambia; Astir/ Cooper, Esq. Spring Gardens; Meters. 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