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  • Thumbnail for Mechanical stoker
    A mechanical stoker is a mechanical system that feeds solid fuel like coal, coke or anthracite into the furnace of a steam boiler. They are common on steam...
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    Chestnut and Pea are used in hand fired furnaces while the smaller Rice and Buckwheat are used in automatic stoker furnaces. Rice is currently the most sought-after...
    31 KB (3,567 words) - 22:05, 2 June 2024
  • A Stoker (Russian: Кочегар), also known as The Stoker, is a 2010 Russian crime film directed by Aleksey Balabanov. The film takes place in St. Petersburg...
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    structure stoker 2nd class, stoker 1st Class, leading stoker, stoker petty officer and chief stoker. The non-substantive (trade) badge for stokers was a ship's...
    14 KB (1,632 words) - 15:09, 5 June 2024
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    fireplace, firebox or furnace. A large coal shovel is used by the fireman of a coal-fired steam locomotive unless an automatic stoker is used. Smaller coal...
    728 bytes (65 words) - 16:43, 19 October 2023
  • to the waist due to the sustained and intense heat of the furnaces. Whilst working as a stoker, Priest survived four ship sinkings and two major collisions...
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  • Thumbnail for McDade Pottery
    Randolph Manufacturing aka Dunkin Jug Factory, was sold to Milton Stoker. Stoker moved the pottery to Marshy Branch on Yegua Creek, east of McDade, to...
    12 KB (1,496 words) - 17:52, 6 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Scotch marine boiler
    The limitation in boiler size was the amount of work each stoker could do, firing one furnace per man. Larger ships (meaning anything above the smallest)...
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    a British stoker. After having served as a stoker on several ships, on 6 April 1912, he was hired on board the RMS Titanic as lead stoker. On April 15...
    8 KB (839 words) - 10:35, 17 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Three-drum boiler
    coal or oil. Many coal-fired boilers used multiple firedoors and teams of stokers, often from both ends. Development of the three-drum boiler began in the...
    39 KB (4,848 words) - 13:44, 17 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Coal trimmer
    within the bunkers, and then providing a consistent delivery of coal to the stoker or fireman working the vessel’s boilers. Coal trimming was also a role based...
    4 KB (579 words) - 03:54, 6 September 2023
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    similar installation, the stoker tending the boiler would dispose of the unpleasant discovery by shoveling it into the furnace, causing the booby trapped...
    5 KB (495 words) - 14:53, 14 April 2024
  • to the stoker motor at the required temperatures. The combustion stoker switch, or holdfire control, responds to a low temperature in the furnace by causing...
    36 KB (5,612 words) - 07:06, 14 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Crew of the Titanic
    firemen (Stoker Foremen) and 163 firemen (Stokers). The ship had 29 boilers, 25 containing six furnaces each, four containing three furnaces each, for...
    117 KB (3,491 words) - 22:46, 13 June 2024
  • generating hot water are identified by (HVAC). Ashpan A container beneath the furnace, catching ash and clinker that falls through the firebars. This may be...
    21 KB (2,419 words) - 21:08, 7 January 2023
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    Flynn Prometheus Executive producer 2013 The East Stoker The Counselor Executive producer Out of the Furnace 2015 A Bigger Splash 2017 Ghost in the Shell Woodshock...
    6 KB (201 words) - 23:03, 5 September 2023
  • arranged and composed by Nelson Riddle. Note: Mike Stoker was credited as Firefighter Specialist Stoker starting with Episode 1 of this season A new set...
    113 KB (363 words) - 02:29, 17 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Water-tube boiler
    circulates in tubes heated externally by fire. Fuel is burned inside the furnace, creating hot gas which boils water in the steam-generating tubes. In smaller...
    18 KB (2,173 words) - 13:10, 12 January 2024
  • pistol; a 1958 Glastron Seaflight boat; a copy of Dracula signed by Bram Stoker that was purchased at a charity auction; a Penn State University 1973 Orange...
    393 KB (538 words) - 17:41, 19 May 2024
  • Tove's younger sister Alexander Owen as Landon, a stoker and friend of Darrel Ben Ashenden as Darrel, a stoker and friend of Landon Richard Hope as Dr. Reginald...
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