Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 147
han the steam is liberated into thesteam space; but a large rupture at or near the bottom of the boiler, sufficiently large tosuddenly discharge a large quantity of water, would be followed alike with destructiveresults. For by this great disturbance in the steam space of the boiler, the… … Fig. 9. Another cause of boiler explosions is the effort to connect boilers under differentpressures of steam by opening the stop valve between them. The water races from theboiler of higher pressure to that of lower pressure with a velocity and force due to thedifference of pressure and volume of…
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