Heating and ventilating buildings : a manual for heating engineers and architects . 0-91 72 32 1891-92 88 23 1892-93 72 20 Total 660. 313 Ratio 482 SETTINGS AND APPLIANCES. 205 This table would seem to indicate that the explosions in thiscountry were more disastrous, so far as taking life is concerned,as in this country two people werekilled for about every three ex- |ggplosions, whereas in Germany and 0^?Great Britain we have about twice as many explosions as deaths. This &£is probably due to the fact that \Mthe statistics in this country classify |as boiler explosions only those which are ma
Heating and ventilating buildings : a manual for heating engineers and architects . 0-91 72 32 1891-92 88 23 1892-93 72 20 Total 660. 313 Ratio 482 SETTINGS AND APPLIANCES. 205 This table would seem to indicate that the explosions in thiscountry were more disastrous, so far as taking life is concerned,as in this country two people werekilled for about every three ex- |ggplosions, whereas in Germany and 0^?Great Britain we have about twice as many explosions as deaths. This &£is probably due to the fact that \Mthe statistics in this country classify |as boiler explosions only those which are markedly disastrous, whereas inFrance and Germany every leak orbreak which appears from this causeis recorded as an explosion. As showing the disastrous effectsoften produced by a boiler explo-sion, the following is abstractedfrom Thurstons Manual of Steam-boilers. Fig. 170 shows the boiler- ^ „ Fig. 170. 0 The Boiler before Explosion. room before the explosion. The boiler was made of ^ iron, was 3 feet in diameter, andwas 7 feet high; the upper tube-head was flush with the.
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