Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 73
able to use a much heavier foundation,relatively to the weight borne, than is usually deemed necessary for a building, for bycracking of the setting walls, nearly the Avhole weight of the boiler might be concen-trated upon a small portion of the foundation wall, which should be heavy enough tobear… … Fig. 2. Transverse Section throughFurnace. 1887.] THE LOCOMOTIVE. 67 The setting is of the style known as the overhanging or j)rojecting front. This hasproved exceedingly popular wherever it has been tried, nearly all of the boiler-makers inthis part of the country have adopted it as their…
Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions
Internet Archive · Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
