Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 186
Fig. 1. was mounted on a truck. It was built in the year 1878, of one-fourth inch iron plates,and intended to be worked at a pressure of about eighty pounds per square inch, had asteam dome, and contained thirty-nine tubes two inches diameter, by about five feet … Fig. 2. long. The owner, who was also the engineer, had started a brisk fire on the second dayit had been in use — had gone to breakfast, and on his return, while steam was, or hadbeen, blowing off, he was engaged in oiling his engine, standing upon it or the truckwheel, when the explosion took…
Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions
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