Steam Boilers

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Excerpt from Steam Boilers: Their Defects, Management, and Construction The following short treatise on the causes of boiler explosions and their prevention has been written with a view to placing within the reach of boiler-attendants and mill-mechanics such information as may lead them to take a more intelligent interest in the safe working of boilers. The rules and examples have been simplified as much as possible, and as the instructions and suggestions given are based on the collective experience of boiler-designing and inspecting engineers, they may be acted on with confidence. The constants used in compiling the various tables are a safe average of the strength of materials employed in boiler construction, and will be found quite applicable to a majority of the land-boilers in use. The absurd theories in reference to explosions which are still held by many of those directly interested in the working of boilers, very frequently stand in the way of preventive measures being adopted, and although it may be too much to expect that explosions will ever entirely be prevented, there can be no doubt that until it is clearly understood that boilers burst - as chains and ropes break - when their strength is exceeded, the "stitch-in-time" suggestions will be held so far in contempt. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.