Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 90
.000 x .3:)9 x .704 An„ , • , Bursting pressure = . = 477 pounds per square inch. Allowing a factor of safety of 5, the calculated safe working pressure ou the boiler, sofar as the strength of the shell is concerned, would be 477 -*- 5 = 95.4 pounds per squareinch. (We do not need to examine the… … Fig. d.—General View op the Ruins. ance Company, we are not in possession of all the facts in the case; but we understandthat the inspector who passed upon the boiler precisely two months before the explosion,allowed a working pressure of 90 pounds per square inch, and that the safety-valve wasset…
Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions
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