Journal of the Franklin Institute; devoted to science and the mechanic arts (1826)
Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) · Oxford, Eng. [etc.] Pergamon Press [etc.] · leaf 258
xperiments, were engaged in ob-serving the boiler at the instant it exploded. A dense cloud of smoke andflame, capped by steam, rose from the pit; the stones and combustibles were Report of Experiments on the Explosions of Steam-Boilers. 225 widely scattered, and the boiler was thrown, in a single… … an irregular line just above the probable water line on one side of the boiler,but not conforming to it. d and b were the lowest points in the two headsbefore the explosion. The sheet of copper was torn from the heads, unrolledand irregularly bent, adhering to the heads for only a short distance…
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