Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 24
te: The Boiler Book is available for general distribution at $1.00 a copy.) 1930 TH E LOCOM OTI VE 11 Bursting Disc Wrecks I urbine While Machine isRunning at Normal Speed; Injures Engineer A 3.000 kw. turbo-generator at the Akron, Ohio, plant of TheQuaker Oats Company exploded without warning on… … Figure 1 three seconds prior to the accident he had been leaning over the turbine,observing the tachometer. He had just left the machine when a pieceof debris struck him a glancing blow on the head, rendering him un-conscious. Had he not started away when he did, he would have beendirectly in the…
Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions
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