Illustrated Catalogue of Buffalo Mechanical Draft Apparatus

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY has been pre-eminently the era of economy in production. Increasing competition in all branches of the arts and sciences has inevitably resulted in cheapening the cost of manufacture, and there is hardly an industry that has not seen the invention of some automatic or semiautomatic labor-saving device by which the work of men's hands has been brought to a minimum.

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COVER

BUFFALO MECHANICAL DRAFT APPARATUS

PREFACE

MECHANICAL DRAFT VS. NATURAL DRAFT

CONVERSION OF LATENT ENERGY INTO AVAILABLE WORK

BUFFALO FANS APPLIED FOR MECHANICAL DRAFT

BUFFALO FANS APPLIED FOR FORCED DRAFT

ECONOMY EFFECTED IN POWER PLANTS

ARGUMENTS IN FAVOR

STEEL PLATE FANS

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