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ic tissue. As pointed outin another article in this issue, it plays an important part in boilerplate corrosion. 1929. THE LOCOMOTIVE 171 Boys Escape Death in Engine Room as Wheel Bursts THE fourteen-foot flywheel of a Corliss-driven air compressorat the plant of French and Hecht, Inc., Davenport,… … in the engine room to gaze in awe at the powerful engine, were theonly persons in the room when the wheel let go. That they escapedwith their lives was almost a miracle. One piece of the wheel, weighing about 800 pounds, passed throughthe wall of the engine room, tore out two girders in the main…
Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions
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