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Where fire was, there they lurked; candle-flame, or gaslight, coal-fire or stoked box of a steam-boiler, burning hearth or burning forest-aIl held his informants, any of which could impart their observations to him.

red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

The revelations about Foley are nothing to do with his repressed pent-up "drives" (the steam-boiler analog for human sexuality); they are our peek at privilege and power that the rulers are now obliged to claim "nauseates" them as a way of denying that exploitative, power-trip sex is the norm in this society ... and that these transgressions are an entitlement of their power.

Stan Goff: Pyongyang, Foley, and Mass Death 2008

Each distillation unit comprises a 5-cubic metre extractor, a steam-boiler, a condenser, and a separator.

47. Tannin produced from pine bark 1992

A flying mountain, roughly the shape - and size - of the island of Manhattan was turning on a cosmic spit every fifty-three hours; as the heat of the Sun seeped through the insulating crust, the vaporizing gases were making Halley's Comet behave like a leaking steam-boiler.

2061 Odyssey Three Clarke, Arthur C. 1987

T.e significance of drafts in steam-boiler practice, by W.T. Ray and Henry Kreisinger. 64 pp., 26 figs. 10 cents.

Engineering Bulletin No 1: Boiler and Furnace Testing

High Temperature Measurements -- The temperatures to be dealt with in steam-boiler practice range from those of ordinary air and steam to the temperatures of burning fuel.

Steam, Its Generation and Use

Invention now followed invention in rapid succession, until the records of the Patent-Office in London were enriched with the drawings of the remarkable steam-boiler on the principle of _artificial draught_; to which principle we are mainly indebted for the benefits conferred on civilization by the present rapid communication by railways.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 Various

We may, if we do not care for the three most important aims in steam-boiler construction, namely, efficiency, durability, and safety, each of which is more or less dependent upon a proper circulation of the water.

Steam, Its Generation and Use

The rolling mill must have come, not only before the modern steam-boiler, but even before the modern plow could be made.

Steam, Steel and Electricity James W. Steele

The present method consists in the use of a common steam-boiler, of the capacity of from 100 to 150 gallons, from which the steam is conveyed by conductors into large wooden air-tight tubs, of 200 gallons capacity, containing the dried herb; from which it is conveyed, charged with the volatile principle of the plant, into a water-vat, containing the condenser.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds