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The Locomotive (1867)

Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 322

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he pitting and grooving had extended through the plate.The man who was killed was thrown more than 30 feet and the otherworkman sustained a broken leg and a scalded thigh. The boiler wasuninsured. Scotch-Marine Furnaces Collapse Two corrugated furnaces in a 103 diameter Scotch-Marine typeboiler… … Collapsed Scotch-Marine boiler furnaces, the result of overheating. was full of water, he had opened the blow-off valve, letting the waterdown to about half a gage, but had not disturbed the banked fire. Abouta half hour later he observed smoke issuing from the front of theboiler and on opening the…

Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions

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