A NEW BOILER,

Otago Witness, Issue 1241, 11 September 1875, Page 3

A NEW BOILER,

The Yorkshire Engine Company are at present engaged upon a work which muat interest the whole engineering world. It is a new kind of builer, wherein every l|lb of coal per hour will do the work of a horse. The new boiler is the invention of Mr Perkins, whose name is widly known in connection with high pressure. It is to be worked at a pressure of 250 lbs on the square inch, or about ten times the force at which many steamboilers are now worked. The attention of the Admiralty having been directed to the Perkins boiler, they have ordered one to be fitted up in Her Majesty's ship Pelican, the whole machinery of which will be supplied by this eminent local firm. The success of this iuvention is a matter of immense importance to England and the world, but to England in particular. The amount of space occupied by boilers and the quantity of coal consumed to t;ot steam-power, are not at all worthy' of this age of mechanical ingenuity. If the Perkins boiler comes out of the trial unscathed, there is not an industry in England which will nos be benefited,' and every steamship, commercial or military, will be able to move over the seas without carrying so much cumbrous coal as deadens her Bpeed, and compels a visit to every coal-lading port.