Journal of the Franklin Institute; devoted to science and the mechanic arts (1826)
Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) · Oxford, Eng. [etc.] Pergamon Press [etc.] · leaf 257
losion resembled that from a small mortar (eprouvette)fully charged, the steam mixed with the smoke was not considerable in quan-tity, and few marks of water were to be seen. The boiler head was thrownfifteen feet, the boiler and spring register about six feet, and the furnace,weighing about… … had first struck against the iron furnace, which had deflected it outwards; thisis shown by the indentation, b c, in the figure. This head was forced off* allaround in the line of rivets which attached the head to the boiler, the metalremaining between the rivets being less than the space occupied…
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