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The Locomotive (1867)

Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 72

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oiler is properly designed and properly set, dry steam may be had withoutthem. However, many of our patrons prefer to have their boilers furni.shed with domes,and there is really no objection to them, provided they are made and put on correctly. The most striking source of weakness in a .steam dome… … Fig. 1. — A CoRKECTLY Designed Dome. sometimes, too, a number of small holes, three-quarters of an inch or so in diameter, aredrilled through the .shell in the place of one large one. Each of these methods is liableto objections, which we proceed to consider. There can be no doubt that a large…

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