Assertion: locomotive's fuel | /r/HasProperty | contracted his blast pipe
Facets:
value: by tapering
type: MANNER
value: far too much
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Over the 27½ miles the coke consumption of Sans Pareil was 12691b or 461b/mile contrasted with Rocket's 15½lb/mile; most of this went out the chimney as unburned fuel for Hackworth had contracted his blast pipe far too much by tapering, and the firing rate was the almost inconceivable figure, for a return-flue boiler, of 691b/sfg/hr (pounds of coal per square foot of grate per hour), whereas that of Rocket, with a firebox that could more easily have taken a high firing rate, was only 30lb/sfg/hr.