Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 176
hat it lifts the boiler bodily, projecting itto a considerable distance, exactly as the issuing stream of water or steam pro-pels a turbine wheel, or the issuing gases propel a sky-rocket, for in this lattercase the explosion is not violent in the sense that the boiler is torn and dis-rupted as if… … Fig. 2. Showing the Destruction of the Boiler House at Arrington, Va. It so happened that the boiler which exploded at Arrington was of thehorizontal return tubular type made of two sheets, a single top and bottomsheet. This necessitated two continuous longitudinal seams the length of theboiler…
Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions
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