Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 488
ank. Vertical tubular boilers, when they fail, are apt to take the path ofa skyrocket. Such was the case of the boiler shown in the photograph.It formerly was the steam source for a small Wisconsin cheese fac-tory, but at the time the picture was taken it had demolished the boilershed, had traveled… … ■ This jp diameter boiler buried itself 14 inches in a fieldafter traveling 340 feet. noise of the explosion and the appearance of the boiler in the air.(A farmer estimated it rose 300 feet.) An examination of the boiler revealed a rupture near the girth seamwhere the vertical section of the…
Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions
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