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resistance of the plate, but there does not appear tobe the smallest probability that they would bring up the safe working pressure to anything like 60 pounds per square inch. A proper hydrostatic test would undoubtedlyhave demonstrated the weakness of this head, and saved the loss of life and… … Boiler Explosions. March, 1899. (76.) — A boiler exploded, on March 2d, in the creamery at Waterville, nearWaukesha, Wis. We have not learned further particulars. (77.) — On March 3d a boiler bursted in the basement of the Central Hotel, atPittsburgh, Pa. The accident consisted, it is said, in the…
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