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Both boilers exploded, causing two deaths and many more injuries as a result of the explosions sending flying debris into the crowd. There are many causes for boiler explosions such as poor water treatment causing scaling and over heating of the plates, low water level, a stuck safety valve, or even a furnace explosion that in turn, if severe ...
Etching of damage from a boiler explosion in Newark, New Jersey in 1867. This is a list of steam boiler explosions such as railway locomotive, marine transport (military and civilian), and stationary power:
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A small explosion in a basement boiler at a University of Nevada, Reno dormitory triggered a much larger natural gas blast last week that left part of the building looking like an earthquake had ...
An assistant engineer who had been with Rockwell five minutes before the explosion stated that when he left, the boiler gauges showed steam pressure to be in the safe range and the boiler to have plenty of water. [7] The state Inspector of Boilers checked the boiler's fusible plug and determined that the explosion was not caused by a lack of ...
At around 2 a.m. on April 27, 1865, when Sultana was about seven miles (11 km) north of Memphis, its boilers suddenly and violently exploded, killing many people instantly. [4]: 79 First one boiler exploded, followed a split-second later by two more. The massive steam explosion came from the top rear of the boilers.
The Lucy Walker steamboat disaster was an 1844 steamboat accident caused by the explosion of the boilers of the steamboat Lucy Walker near New Albany, Indiana, on the Ohio River. The explosion occurred on the afternoon of Wednesday, October 23, 1844, when the steamer's three boilers exploded, set the vessel on fire, and sank it. It was one of a ...
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