Model of a Hand Fired Water Tube Boiler – ca 1890
notes: label: Description
content: This is a model of an inclined-tube, solid-header boiler of the type constructed about 1890 by the National Water Tube Boiler Company of New Brunswick, New Jersey. It incorporates many features patented by W.E. Kelly, an inventor from the same city. His patent was Number 523,793, dated July 31, 1894. A full description of the operation of the boiler along with complete diagrams of the patent can be found in the patent document online at the United States Patent and Trademark Office website, www.uspto.gov.
label: Description
content: The model is complete with ornamental front, gauges, and blow off safety valve. It is equipped with grates for hand firing. The brick work setting is cut away to show the boiler parts and the method of suspension. The orange serpentine arrows illustrate the path of the hot gases from the grate as they pass over the tubes three times prior to reaching the chimney.
topic: label: Subject
content: Model
label: Subject
content: Steam Engines
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
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content: Engineering, Building, and Architecture
label: Exhibition
content: Power Machinery
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Frank A. Taylor. Catalog of the Mechanical Collections of the Division of Engineering United States National Museum, Bulletin 173
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John A. Manley, New Brunswick, New Jersey
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ER.309374
label: catalog number
content: 309374
label: accession number
content: 98634
objectType: label: Object Name
content: boiler, water tube, model
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 30 1/2 in x 41 in x 15 1/2 in; 77.47 cm x 104.14 cm x 39.37 cm