Boiler explosions & Boiler building books

Two books on building your boiler correctly and steam boiler explosions. I guess it's important to read these in the correct order!

https://books.google.com/books?id=rT8OA ... &q&f=false

https://books.google.com/books?id=IrNXA ... ns&f=false

Boiler advice from the 1896 Ashton Valve catalog.

https://www.trainboard.com/highball/ind ... pg.208191/

https://www.trainboard.com/highball/ind ... pg.208192/

Recomended:
LOCOMOTIVE BOILER EXPLOSIONS

C.H. Hewinson

ISBN 0-7153-8305-1

Worked in a Navy engine room. Gotta lot of respect for hot water.

https://www.nationalboard.org/Index.asp ... 164&ID=226

The cause and preventive of steam boiler explosions .. 1855
by Harshman, Jacob. [from old catalog]


https://archive.org/details/causepreven ... explosions

Phillyrube--
Navy isn't the only place where you learn to have a lot of respect for boiling water. I have a daughter whose first degree was mechanical engineering and who has done a bit of teaching in the field: she said (apropos of a discussion of just what the turn-off switch in an electric kettle responded to) that one of the things she felt she had to stress very strongly to students was: don't mess with pressure vessels!

Catch the YouTube of the mythbusters tying down the safety on a hot water heater and letting it go. Pretty impressive.

Agree, don't mess with pressure vessels.

I'll bet these 1910 boiler explosion articles had the Hartford Insurance company's interest.

And another

A section about boiler explosions from 1917.
American Stationary Engineering: A Practical Work which Begins at the Boiler ...
by William Edward Crane

And the last page. 1917