Resource Type

Furnace (open access)

Furnace

Patent for "an improvement in furnaces, and more particularly to such as are employed for burning offal, refuse from slaughtering-houses" in which the furnace is surrounded by water, and any liquid inside the furnace can be expelled in the form of vapor (lines11-14).
Date: January 27, 1891
Creator: Hatcher, William Andrew
System: The Portal to Texas History