Corliss Marine-Boiler Improvements, Patent Model
date: label: date made
content: 1862
label: patent date
content: 1862-08-26
name: label: inventor
content: Corliss, George H.
notes: label: Description
content: This model was submitted to the U.S. Patent Office with the application for the patents issued to George H. Corliss, Providence, Rhode Island, August 26, 1862, nos. 36279 and 36281.
label: Description
content: The model represents a pair of internally fired, fire-tube boilers of the “locomotive” type, each equipped with a steam main connected to the steam space at six different points for the purpose of diffusing the draft of steam from over the whole surface of the water in the boiler and thus prevent priming; and provided with a salt-water evaporator located in the breeching, so as to obtain heat from the hot flue gases, and connected to the surface condenser to lower the pressure on the boiling salt water to facilitate evaporation.
label: Description
content: The purpose of the peculiar arrangement of steam pipes is to provide a method of obtaining steam free from water without the necessity of a high steam chamber, which would be a vulnerable part of a naval vessel. The theory is that the filling of any of the many tubes with water, due to the pitching of the vessel, would cause the other tubes to supply the steam to the engines and the water would not travel far in the immersed tubes.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: This description comes from the 1939 Catalog of the Mechanical Collections of the Division of Engineering United States Museum Bulletin 173 by Frank A. Taylor.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island
label: associated place
content: United States: Rhode Island, Providence
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
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content: Bulletin 173
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content: Engineering, Building, and Architecture
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content: Work
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Frank A. Taylor. Catalog of the Mechanical Collections of the Division of Engineering United States National Museum, Bulletin 173
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MC.308666
label: catalog number
content: 308666
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: patent number
content: 36,279
label: patent number
content: 36,281
objectType: label: Object Name
content: boiler, steam, model
label: Object Name
content: patent model, boiler, steam
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 3 5/8 in x 8 1/2 in; 10.16 cm x 9.2075 cm x 21.59 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall-from catalog card: 4 in x 4 in x 8 1/2 in; 10.16 cm x 10.16 cm x 21.59 cm