Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 218
Light Plant. The engravings presented herewith illustrate a boiler explosion which oc-curred a few months ago in a municipal electric lighting plant in the South. Theboiler that exploded is shown in the foreground of Fig. 1. It was of the hori-zontal tubular type, with its longitudinal joints… … Fig. 1. — General View of The Ruins.The boiler which exploded was 60 inches in diameter and 16 feet long. It wasbuilt in 1901, and had not been in service four years when the accident occurred.The initial rupture occurred on the bottom of the shell, extending fore and aftalong the entire length of…
Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions
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