 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1838 - 510 pages
...belonged to a set of three, feeding the same engine. The fuel used was bituminous coal. The furnace doors of all three of the boilers had been opened, and the...shell of the boiler remaining in their places, and the safety valve upon the latter not being injured. Mr. Taylor states it as probable, that the steam pressure... | |
 | 1838 - 520 pages
...belonged to a set of three, feeding the same engine. The fuel used was bituminous coal. The furnace doors of all three of the boilers had been opened, and the...shell of the boiler remaining in their places, and the safety valve upon the latter not being injured. Mr. Taylor states it as probable, that the steam pressure... | |
 | 1838 - 510 pages
...belonged to a set of three, feeding the same engine. The fuel used was bituminous coal. The furnace doors of all three of the boilers had been opened, and the...shell of the boiler remaining in their places, and the safety valve upon the latter not being injured. Mr. Taylor states it as probable, that the steam pressure... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1851 - 552 pages
...was bituminous coal. The furnace doors of all three of the boilers had been opened, and the dampen of two had been closed, when a gust of flame was seen...the safety-valve upon the latter not being injured. Other similar cases of collapse might be stated, but as most of them have been attended by a defective... | |
 | 1851 - 556 pages
...same engine ; the fuel used was bituminous coal. The furnace doors of all three of the boilers bad been opened, and the dampers of two had been closed,...by an explosion. The interior flue of this boiler w.is flattened from the sides, the flue -mil slu'H of the boiler remaining ia their places, and the... | |
 | William Fairbairn - 1851 - 60 pages
...belonged to a set of three feeding the same engine ; the fuel used was bituminous coal. The furnace doors of all three of the boilers had been opened, and the...the mouth of the furnace of these latter, and was immediatefy followed by an explosion. The interior flue of this boiler was flattened from the sides,... | |
 | 1851 - 552 pages
...belonged to a set of three feeding the same engine ; the fuel used was bituminous coal. The furnace doors of all three of the boilers had been opened, and the...issue from the mouth of the furnace of these latter, snd was immediately followed by an explosion. The interior flue of this boiler was flattened from the... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1856 - 1140 pages
...belonged to a set of three feeding the same engine; the fuel used was bituminous coal. The furnace doors of all three of the boilers had been opened, and the...by an explosion. The interior flue of this boiler wns flattened from the sides, the flue and shell of the boiler remaining in their places, and the safety-valve... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1870 - 1134 pages
...belonged to a set of three feeding the same engine; the fuel used was bituminous coal. The furnace doors of all three of the boilers had been opened, and the...the safety-valve upon the latter not being injured. " Other similar cases of collapse might be stated, but as most of them have been at tended by a defective... | |
 | 1836 - 460 pages
...belonged to a set of three, feeding the same engine. The fuel used was bituminous coal. The furnace doors of all three of the boilers had been opened and the...shell of the boiler remaining in their places, and the safety valve upon the latter not beingjnjured. Mr. Taylor states it as probable, that the steam pressure... | |
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This occurrence seems to prove that rarefaction produced in the flues of a high pressure boiler may determine an explosion. The boiler which exploded belonged to a set of three feeding the same engine; the fuel used was bituminous coal. The furnace doors... 