Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 114
eet, through which the entire contents of the shell issued at a temperatureand velocity due to about 40 pounds per square inch of steam pressure, carrying awayabout 20 feet in length of the three decks of the vessel and everything thereon. Timbers reduced to splinters and joiner work to fine… … Fig. 1. 108 THE LOCOMOTIVE. [July, instead of the shoal water of the narrow river, from which many of the injured werepromptly rescued by the oystermen who were near with their boats. The boiler of the Adelphi was technically known as a lobster-back.M The shellconsists of a body containing three…
Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions
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