Published Resources Details Journal Article
- Title
- Oil fuel in the United States Navy
- In
- The Engineer
- Imprint
- vol. 82, 20 November 1896, p. 511
- Description
Accession No.476
- Abstract
The Board of Engineers of the United States Navy had been experimenting with the use of fuel oil as a fuel in Torpedo Boat No. 2 for nearly a year. The evaporation rate of the boiler using fuel oil as fuel was found to be double that of coal.