H .I—an—i »«■ MILES OF PIPING. There are fully 1000 tons of piping ol various kinds in a big Atlantic liner. The condensers will prnnn up at least 50.000 gallons of cold water a day. The furnaces will consume no less than 7,500,000 (nitric feet of air an hour. The boiler tubes, il olnced in a straight line, would stretch nearly 10 miles, and the condenser tube* more than '25 miles. The total number of sefkura’e pieces of steel in the mad structure of the ship is not leas than 40,000, - M
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 2211, 5 September 1910, Page 2
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