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Accidents from steam machinery
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Mechanics, .Physics, and CherMstry.
question been under the charge of this Association, not a day would have been lost in apprising its owners of the dangerous position they were in. The jury found that the deceased met with their deaths from the accidental bursting of the boiler, adding that they considered that the furnace flue had not been of sufficient strength for the pressure.
Accidents from Steam MaeMnery. From the London Journal of the Society of Arts~ October~ 1865.
in consequence of the removal of certain restrictions respecting the employment of steam power in manufacture, the Moniteur has collected and published an account of the accidents which happened through the use of steam during the past year. It appears that the accidents were only sixteen in number, but that the number of persons who were killed, or died afterwards of the injuries inflicted, amounted to forty, and that fifteen other persons were wounded more or less seriously. Of the sixteen accidents, four occurred in sugar works, three in paper manufactories, two each in distillery and drug works, and one each in other industries. The causes of accident are classified as follows : Eight occurred by the explosion of cylindrical boilers, three by that of tubular boilers with interior furnaces, one by the explosion of a locomotive, and four by that of steam heating apparatus. '1 he immediate causes are supposed in eight eases to have been the bad quality of the metal employed, or the vicious arrangement of the furnaces ; in seven others, carelessness or want of superintendence on the part of engineers or stokers, and in the remaining case from the imprudence of other persons. The Moniteur gives the details in each case, in order that manufacturers may take warning for the future. This return, of course, does not include railway or other accidents which occurred in connexion with, but were not immediately caused by steam machinery.
~fltuvia from Sewers. From the London Mechanics' Magazinej Sept~mber~ 1865,
The effluvia which escape from sewers, in the very attempt to ventilate them, are of a very pernicious character, and have often been roductive of mischievous effects. M. Robinet, a French chemist~ as devised a very effective means of freeing the sewers from them. His plan has already been carried out on a small scale. He proposes that the furnaces of factories shall derive their supply of air from the sewers ; the latter will thus be emptied of their mephitic gases, which will be destroyed by combustion, fresh air from the atmosphere supplying their place. He calculates that if the combustion of only 70,000 tons of coal can be thus economized annually in Paris, or only a tenth part of what is burned there, the sewers will be supplied with about 140,000,000 cubic feet of fresh air--that is~ more than seven times their contents--daily.
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Mechanics, .Physics, and CherMstry.
question been under the charge of this Association, not a day would have been lost in apprising its owners of the dangerous position they were in. The jury found that the deceased met with their deaths from the accidental bursting of the boiler, adding that they considered that the furnace flue had not been of sufficient strength for the pressure.
Accidents from Steam MaeMnery. From the London Journal of the Society of Arts~ October~ 1865.
in consequence of the removal of certain restrictions respecting the employment of steam power in manufacture, the Moniteur has collected and published an account of the accidents which happened through the use of steam during the past year. It appears that the accidents were only sixteen in number, but that the number of persons who were killed, or died afterwards of the injuries inflicted, amounted to forty, and that fifteen other persons were wounded more or less seriously. Of the sixteen accidents, four occurred in sugar works, three in paper manufactories, two each in distillery and drug works, and one each in other industries. The causes of accident are classified as follows : Eight occurred by the explosion of cylindrical boilers, three by that of tubular boilers with interior furnaces, one by the explosion of a locomotive, and four by that of steam heating apparatus. '1 he immediate causes are supposed in eight eases to have been the bad quality of the metal employed, or the vicious arrangement of the furnaces ; in seven others, carelessness or want of superintendence on the part of engineers or stokers, and in the remaining case from the imprudence of other persons. The Moniteur gives the details in each case, in order that manufacturers may take warning for the future. This return, of course, does not include railway or other accidents which occurred in connexion with, but were not immediately caused by steam machinery.
~fltuvia from Sewers. From the London Mechanics' Magazinej Sept~mber~ 1865,
The effluvia which escape from sewers, in the very attempt to ventilate them, are of a very pernicious character, and have often been roductive of mischievous effects. M. Robinet, a French chemist~ as devised a very effective means of freeing the sewers from them. His plan has already been carried out on a small scale. He proposes that the furnaces of factories shall derive their supply of air from the sewers ; the latter will thus be emptied of their mephitic gases, which will be destroyed by combustion, fresh air from the atmosphere supplying their place. He calculates that if the combustion of only 70,000 tons of coal can be thus economized annually in Paris, or only a tenth part of what is burned there, the sewers will be supplied with about 140,000,000 cubic feet of fresh air--that is~ more than seven times their contents--daily.
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