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Definition of Oil furnace
1. Noun. A furnace that burns oil.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oil Furnace
Literary usage of Oil furnace
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of Fuel Oil and Steam Engineering: A Practical Treatise Dealing by Robert Sibley, Charles Henry Delany (1921)
"Fuel oil furnace Operation.—When the oil is atomized, it must be brought into
contact with the requisite quantity of air for its combustion, ..."
2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1916)
"An electric furnace of smaller size might melt at the same rate as the oil furnace
when the labor cost would equal that of the oil furnace, but there would ..."
3. American Fuels by Raymond Foss Bacon, William Allen Hamor (1922)
"Unfortunately, the same ease with which the excess air supply to an oil furnace
may be reduced to a minimum, makes it possible to admit even more excess air ..."
4. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"A modified form of oil-furnace was tried at Woolwich by Mr Richardson in 1867,
... There are many other forms of oil-furnace by Hill, Stevens, Sim, Barff, ..."
5. Fuel Oil in Industry by Stephen Osgood Andros (1920)
"No repairs to the baffles have been necessary. It will be noted that the wide Fit.
51. A Babcock and Wilcox oil furnace, ..."
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