The story of Pittsburgh: Diversified products

Diversified products (Vol. 1, nr. 13)

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Identifikator:: 1831622599

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Title:: The story of Pittsburgh

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1919-1930

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 183162365X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-241129

Document type:: Volume

Title:: Diversified products

Volume count:: Vol. 1, nr. 13

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: [ca. 80] Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Ladd water tube boiler company

Collection:: Economics Books

operation throughout the country, varying in capacity from 4,000 to 600,000 pounds of steam per hour Ladd engineers pioneered the use of large combustion chambers, having installed boilers in 1916 with four and one-half cubic feet of combustion space per rated horsepower. They were also the first boiler company to use heavy steel work for boiler settings; to suspend the drums inside the boiler settings; to perfect and install a patented feed box arrangement, special baffle tile, air tight doors and many other noteworthy improvements in boiler ard furnace construction. That the fundamental design of the Ladd Boiler is correct is proved not only by the efficient operation of these boilers wherever installed, but also by the fact that today several of the larger boiler companies have revised their original model to more closely conform to the Ladd design. Probably the largest and best known water tube boiler installation in the world is the eight 2,647 HP. Ladd boilers installed in the River Rouge Power Plant of the Ford Motor Company. Four of these boilers were installed in 1920, and at that time they were not only the largest power boilers ever built, but also the first boilers to be fired by a combina- tion of pulverized coal and blast furnace gas. The perform- ance of the first four boilers was so satisfactory that a second order for four additional boilers of the same horse- power capacity was placed and the hoilers installed during 1922. With the rapid advances that have been made in the past ten years in combustion equipment and with the advent particularly of pulverized fuel it was logical that the largest company in the combustien field and the Ladd Boiler Com- pany should have a common interest. The progressive ideas of both organizations long before a consolidation was effected tended to bring them together in rather closer accord than might ordinarily be expected. On the other hand the engineers responsible for the design and erection of the Ladd Water Tube Boiler as well as the engineers of Com- bustion Engineering Corporation recognized that a more efficient piece of work could be done by having the boiler and the furnace practically one unit designed bv one or-

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