Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 157
e in effect the explosion of a charge of detonatingcompound on the surface of a submerged rock, and by reaction breaking through theplate, and by others it is said to resemble the blasting of rocks under water, whereby theboiler is ruptured by the impact of the projected water. Another way of… … Fig. 4. Fig. 5. The gas theory, meaning a decomposition of the steam, and the explosion of thehydrogen with great violence, or the violent reunion of the gases, whichever it may be,will not for like reasons be admissible. We may not speak so positively of the electrical theory, since the iron steam…
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