Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 168
VIII. HARTFORD, CONN., APRIL 25, 1911. No. 6. A Fly-Wheel Explosion at Towanda, Pa. Tlic bursting of a wheel on atC automatic engine in the plant of theTowanda Electric Illuminating Co., at Towanda, Pa., in the early morningof April 20, 1911, gives striking evidence of the incorrectness of the… … . Fk;. I.— Showing the Broken Wheel and Governor. The wheel in question was mounted upon one of a pair of center-crank,automatic, slide-valve, simple engines, each of which was belted to anelectric generator. Each engine was equipped with a shaft governor ofthe Rites inertia tj-pe, the governor on…
Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions
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