Specification of Richard Willcox : steam-engine furnace or boiler and air pump.

  • Willcox, Richard.
Date:
1854
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Richard Willcox : steam-engine furnace or boiler and air pump. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ord. as shallow as is practicable, I am enabled to retard the combustion of fuel, and thereby employ nearly the whole of its caloric, instead of permitting it to pass up the chimney as at present. Note, in the Figs 16, 17, 18, and 19, the same letters refer to the same parts in the different views of the boiler. In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Willcox, have hereunto set my 5 hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and two. RICH* WILLCOX (l.s.) AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-first day of June, in the forty-second year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, ]o the said Richard Willcox came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written. And also the instrument aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the several Statutes made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen 15 William and Mary of England, and so forth, and in the seventeenth, twenty- third, and thirty-seventh years of the reign of His present Majesty King George the Third. Inrolled the Twenty-second day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and two. 20 LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. 1854. #