multitubular
- a word derived from tubular.
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Boiler.—The boiler described on pp. 211-216, or a vertical multitubular boiler with about 800 sq. inches of heating surface will drive this engine satisfactorily.
From Things To Make by Williams, Archibald
Modern boilers have smaller tubes and more of them, but "The Rocket" was the first to typify the modern multitubular boiler.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
Thus, of Stephenson’s two great devices, without either of which his success at Rainhill would have been impossible—the waste steam blast and the multitubular boiler—Peter Cooper had only got hold of the last.
From Railway Adventures and Anecdotes extending over more than fifty years by Various
The arrangement is also adapted to horizontal and multitubular boilers, to be fired with solid, liquid, or gaseous fuel.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 312, December 24, 1881 by Various
This crane has a separate pair of engines for each motion, which are supplied with steam by the multitubular boiler placed in the cage as shown.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 794, March 21, 1891 by Various
