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The Locomotive (1867)

Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 374

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tracted droughts. Therainfall at that time of the year is everywhere at a minimum, a factthat impresses itself in one way or another upon nearly all of us. Theboiler plant operator soon feels its reaction upon his feed water supply.At first thought one would probably be inclined to say that the… … Badly Scaled Tubes. All water, as we know, in flowing over or through the grounddissolves a certain amount of mineral salts which make the water hard to a greater or lesser degree. These minerals are depositedin the boiler — since nothing hut pure water goes off — and supplythe scale forming…

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