Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 258
as an oil derrick. The door of the boiler not only hit it butricocheted into another derrick nearby. About 200 feet away was awater tank, an easier mark, into which smashed the shell of the boiler,crushing the tank nicely. A partially wrecked boiler house, an auto-mobile buried in debris beside it,… … A GOOD example of a shaft break because of torsional vibration isillustrated by the two photographs on this page showing the. faces of the break, which started at the keyway and progressedabout 40 per cent of the way through the shaft before the final separa-tion occurred. The picture at the left…
Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions
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