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BY
EDWARD BINDON MARTEN,
Mem. Inst. of Mechanical Engineers; Associate of Institution of Civil Engineers, and Chief Engineer to the Midland Steam Boiler Inspection and Assurance Co.
LONDON;
E. & F. N. SPON, 48, CHARING CROSS.
STOURBRIDGE:
R. BROOMHALL, 148, HIGH STREET.
1872.
Accurate information as to Boiler Explosions mustalways be useful to those who are interested in the safe working ofSteam Boilers.
The following pages contain very brief abstracts of records obtainedfor the Midland Steam Boiler Inspection and Assurance Company, by whosepermission they are now republished in a compact and convenient form.
By permission of the Council of the Institution ofMechanical Engineers, the records are prefaced by a Paperon Steam Boiler Explosions and their records, and onInspection as a means of prevention, read before thatInstitution at Manchester, August 1st, 1866, and a furtherPaper on the "Conclusions derived from the experience ofrecent Steam Boiler Explosions," read before the sameInstitution at Nottingham, August 3rd, 1870.
All names of Works or Firms are omitted from therecords as unnecessary.
and their Records, and on, Inspection asa Means of Prevention, by Edward B. Marten, mem. inst. m.e. a.i.c.e.,excerpt Minutes of Proceedings of the Meeting of the Institutionof Mechanical Engineers, at Manchester, 1st August, 1866, JosephWhitworth, Esq., President, in the Chair. By permission of theCouncil.
The subject of Steam Boiler Explosions, which wasbrought before this Institution in June, 1848, in a paper by the lateMr. William Smith of Dudley in reference to an explosion near thatplace, and again in 1859 in a paper by Mr. Longridge on the economyand durability of stationary boilers, is one of great importanceand is now attracting increased attention. The first public noticeof the subject was by a parliamentary committee in 1817, which wasappointed in consequence of a very fatal boiler explosion in London in1815; evidence was then collected as to steamboats, and many boilerexplosions were referred to. That committee recom