Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 186
ing valve traveled, while exhaust and compression were providedfor through the expedient of a pair of oscillating plug valves. All except theriding valve driven by fixed eccentrics, cut-off alone being influenced by theaction of the governor. The unusual feature of this accident is found in the… … Fig. i. Wrecked Fly Wheel at Nelsonville. That the speed was excessive is attested by the violence of the explosion, thedistance to which large pieces of the wheel were projected, and also by the factthat lamps were burned out by an excessive voltage, which would accompanyan increase of speed, just…
Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions
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