Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 205
, but pulled away from the tubesheet, or upper head of the lower drum, by fracturing the rivets there. Oneof our correspondents says that the metal of the lower drum appeared tohave changed in physical condition along the line of fracture, so as to bevery brittle and hard there. He adds that the… … Fig. 4.— The Boiler, after the Explosion. (Note the line of fracture, on the right.) The lower head, after becoming detached from the drum, remained ator near its original position, and, save for a few indentations, was notdamaged materially. The rest of the boiler, impelled upward, very muchafter…
Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions
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