Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 186
sily seen that at 120 pounds pressure the factor of safety of the shell wasouly about three.—Ed.] The explosion occurred about 7.30 A. if. on the morning ofOctober 11th, shortly after the day shift of firemen came on. In this shift there werefour men in addition to the water tender. All five were… … General View op the Ruins. Several others were injured, two of them rather seriously; they are now in the hospital,and are expected to recover. In looking over the remaining parts of the boilers I saw there, I noticed thatmost of them broke through the line of rivet holes of the small courses in…
Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions
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