Fireman (steam engine) | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-07-06

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireman_(steam_engine)


00:00:40 1 Nautical
00:00:49 1.1 Royal Navy
00:01:33 1.2 Royal Canadian Navy
00:01:58 1.3 United States Navy
00:03:06 2 Railways
00:04:43 3 Mechanical stoker
00:05:23 4 Notable stokers
00:06:43 5 Depictions in popular culture and art
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00:07:17 5.2 Events
00:07:47 5.3 Film
00:08:05 5.4 Literature
00:08:37 5.5 Music



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A fireman, stoker or watertender is a person whose occupation it is to tend the fire for the running of a boiler, heating a building, or powering a steam engine. Much of the job is hard physical labor, such as shoveling fuel, typically coal, into the boiler's firebox. On steam locomotives the title fireman is usually used, while on steamships and stationary steam engines, such as those driving saw mills, the title is usually stoker (although the British Merchant Navy did use fireman). The German word Heizer is equivalent and in Dutch the word stoker is mostly used too. The United States Navy referred to them as watertenders.