Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 106
ially apt to occur where natural gas isused for fuel. The specific gravity of this gas seems to be less than that of the ordinarygases arising from the combustion of coal; at any rate, where it is used we have alwaysobserved a much greater volume of flame hugging the upper portions of the shell… … Fig. 3. duty of the boilers, or the work they are forced to do, is usually much greater than it iswhere coal is burned, and we have some indication of the much fiercer heat obtained, andthe correspondingly greater danger where any portion of the shell, unprotected by water,is exposed to the furnace…
Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions
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