Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 47
inger can be laid, so as to assure the owner of the boiler that if thisone source of peril be avoided, he need fear no harm. We are well aware that the gen-eral public believes that low water is the one cause of explosions. The low water idea,in fact, has taken such complete possession of the minds… … Fig. 2. — Forward Part of the Boiler, After the Explosion. tempered, perhaps, by a suspicion that some miscreant (we believe miscreant is theusual word!) has been salting the coal-pile with giant powder or dynamite or lyddite orsome other terrible explosive. Sometimes, however, an explosion occurs…
Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions
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