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The Locomotive (1867)

Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 347

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. However, having thus accepted the product of a few makers as in-surable, the Company saw that in fairness to all manufacturers, as wellas for the protection of prospective purchasers of vessels, some well-defined standard of welding would have to be codified, and tests wouldhave to be devised… … opportunity of pioneering in a new fieldjust as it had pioneered years before inestablishing the standards for riveting.In the opinion of the HartfordSteam Boiler engineers there are threephysical properties that every weld mustpossess if it is to be considered safe.These properties are sufficient…

Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions

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