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The Locomotive (1867)

Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 29

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of steam industries. Correctly interpreted,it may prove an important help in dispelling the cloud of mystery which has so persist-ently clung around boiler accidents. Laws and official rules regulating the thickness and quality of the plates seem tooffer but little protection when they are joined… … Fig. 1. Fig. 1.—Rivet which was driven n in over-set holes. The conical point broken offby the tearing apart of the plates. The head nearly severed from the body. Probablyweakened in driving.n From photograph full size.

Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions

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