Provision was to be made in the fireboxes for heating shot, and a force pump with a cylinder 33 inches in diameter was employed to throw a stream of cold water, about 60-80 gallons per minute, for a distance of about two hundred feet.
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Howard I. Chapelle
Both receptacles have separate fireboxes and ash pits.
"Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights"
Kelly Miller
At certain stations on the line there are vast reservoirs of this combustible mineral, from which the tenders are filled, and it is burned in specially adapted fireboxes.
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Jules Verne