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2. Boiler explosion - Wikipedia

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   The second type is the collapse of the firebox under steam pressure from the adjoining boiler, releasing flames and hot gases into the cab. Improved design and maintenance almost totally eliminated the first type, but the second type is always possible if the driver and fireman do not maintain the water level in the boiler.

3. Sopwith 1913 Circuit of Britain floatplane - Wikipedia

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   Flying via Ramsgate, Yarmouth and Scarborough, Seaham - where an unscheduled hour stop was made to effect repairs and replace lost radiator water - and ending the day at Beadnell, about 20 mi (32 km) short of the control point at Berwick-on-Tweed, due to one of the radiator hoses having been burnt through.

4. Ashtabula River railroad disaster - Wikipedia

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   The Neptune Hose Company's steam pump and the Protection Fire Company's hand pump were hauled more than 1 mile (1.6 km) through snowdrifts, but arrived too late. Amasa Stone was held personally responsible for the bridge's poor design, and the railroad company for the lax inspection of the bridge and the failure to use self-extinguishing ...

5. List of catastrophic collapses of broadcast masts and towers

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   Upper section of antenna broke loose and destroyed guy wires due to ice storm WAND and WJJY used the same RCA UHF antennas, mfg in 1969. TV channel 17 (488-494 MHz) Collapsed Easter Sunday. Nebraska Education Tower, Angora: February 1978: Guyed steel lattice mast 457 Ice Zehlendorf bei Oranienburg, East Germany May 21, 1978: Guyed steel lattice ...

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7. Belvidere Apollo Theatre collapse - Wikipedia

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   Video of the tornado that caused the collapse entering Belvidere. A historic severe weather event occurred on March 31 across northern Illinois. [6] Having anticipated the severe conditions in advance, the Storm Prediction Center outlined a rare high (5/5) risk convective outlook that morning for two areas; a southern area including much of Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee, and a northern ...