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The Locomotive (1867)

Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 10

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the grain, instead of girthwise. Among the wrecked fragments of tlieseven badly shattered boilers, I coimted several that ruptured through the line of theweak man-hole opening. After tlie lapse of so many years, witli the usage to which tlieseboilers had been sul)jected, we may prudently assume… … Fio. 3. causes incidental to their use, so that it callipered Ijut ^ inch. We have approximately42000 X. 25 420 _ 25 ~~fj ^^ ^^^- steam as their safe working pressure, while the actual work-ing pressure as testified l)y the engineer before the Coroners Inquest was, They car-ried from 40 to 80 lbs.…

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