The Locomotive . examine the equipment beforehandto be sure it is safe for use. Efforts to utilize the power of grain dust explosions in an in-ternal combustion engine have been made by the U. S. Departmentof Agriculture. A modified Ford engine was used, according toPoiver, and although a continuous run was not made, as many astwelve successive explosions in one cylinder were obtained. The resultsare said to have been very encouraging. 112 THE LOCOMOTIVE [October, Boiler Explosion at Chicago Heights, Illinois. A BOILER explosion of considerable intensity occurred at theplant of the Albert Davi
The Locomotive . examine the equipment beforehandto be sure it is safe for use. Efforts to utilize the power of grain dust explosions in an in-ternal combustion engine have been made by the U. S. Departmentof Agriculture. A modified Ford engine was used, according toPoiver, and although a continuous run was not made, as many astwelve successive explosions in one cylinder were obtained. The resultsare said to have been very encouraging. 112 THE LOCOMOTIVE [October, Boiler Explosion at Chicago Heights, Illinois. A BOILER explosion of considerable intensity occurred at theplant of the Albert David Chemical Company, Chicago Heights,Illinois, on the morning of June 15th, 1926. One man was killedand property destroyed to the extent of nearly $18,000. Greater loss oflife was undoubtedly avoided because of the early hour, as the employeeswere just beginning to arrive and but few of them were on the few minutes later several men would have been at work in the imme-diate vicinity of the boiler Fig. I. The boiler that exploded was of the water tube type and was locatednear the center of a large brick boiler room. This boiler house wassituated in one corner of the plant with no buildings on two sides of another side it was separated from a machine shop by a 13 inch brickfire wall. The boiler house was practically a complete loss. Only partsof the walls remained standing and some of these were so badly damagedas to necessitate tearing them down. One head of the boiler was blownthrough the brick fire wall, then across the engine room and throughanother 13 inch wall, coming to rest against the far wall of this room. 1926. THE LOCOMOTIVE, 113 The rest of the boiler traveled almost intact through the opposite wallof the boiler house, ploughed across a railroad spur and through a fence,and came to rest al)out 75 feet away in a field. The boiler was somewhatbattered by contact with the wall and railroad track, but the only rupturewas in the head. The setting of
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