Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 117
xide, which is cracked offby the motion and washed away by thecurrents when the boiler is put to workagain, leaving the clean and weak fibersmore susceptible, and by reason of theirloss of substance less capable of bearingthe strain. And the destruction goes onin an increasing ratio till the… … 1880.] THE LOCOMOTIVE. Ill signs of distress. But to the engineer who has not had the advantage of studying prac-tically the causes of destructive explosions, and knows little about boilers outside ofown practice, this phenomenon means no more than any one of the many leaks that hehas successfully…
Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions
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