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The Locomotive (1867)

Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 118

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mmediate cause of the explosion. Thus, after the disastrous explosion at the Park Cen-tral Hotel in this city, described and illustrated in the March Locomotive, the fusible plugwas found intact; and hy placing it in a retort and carefully ascertaining the melting pointof the filling, it was easily… … The fu.sible plug illustrated in this number of the Locomotive was found in aboiler in the South. The water in this boiler got low one day, and of course the fus-ible filling melted out and gave the alarm. The owner not having time to have it refilled,and not having another one on hand, drove a…

Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions

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