SCALE IN BOILERS.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5061, 2 April 1885, Page 1

SCALE IN BOILERS.

[ The discovery, by George Downie; H ; the efficacy of eucalyptus for Removing • scale from steam boilers, hns proved to be ef more than ordinary value. Thi I)owpie B. I.E. Co., of this city, to whom his iriany| patents from different countrieshave! been-:*' assigned,.hare already buUt opV r thriirifig ; industry that, gives ;prcniise>of'attaming imuch larger proportionsfinthe near future. > At their works, at Piedmontthey hate ; already manufactured'nearly 10OJ00O gallons of the preparation from the eucalyptus; for removing scale. About Ihalf of this > has been shipped East and to Emrbpe, : where it is being introduced in thet maiir 1 / kei A majority of ■boilers both on land; •and on steamboats on this coast, are new , 'using tho preparation, and the engineers < 'sjieak of it in very high terms'. .) A good scale remover has long been sought -by engineers,' and: if this preparation: ■is ; ; :what it appears to be it will W gratifying ' ;to know that the-discovery was made by^ ■ a Californiani The company '.propose to do their manufacturing entirely in the State, and if they do.they will build up an industry of considerable importance to us. As a by-product the essential oils pf ihe:;--^ Eucalyptus Olobulus are being distilled. These oils are coming to^ be use 4 to;coin- > siderablo extent hi medicine, particularly in Germany,, where the supply has been coming from Australia.—San Francisco News' Letter;'. ..'-■•■/;^!. -.:"":V '■';':;.:. :'--; A*'' s "';'■'■