Boiler Explosions. Share full article. May 20, 1861. ... and not a rupture from mere overpressure, and that the explosion was caused by superheated steam, in the following manner: ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Experiments on Superheating as a Cause of Boiler Explosion ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 51 No. 24 (December 1884), p. 394 doi ...

LIGHTHALL testified that the explosion of the boiler of the Chenango was the result of superheated steam., Mr. DANIEL E. MARTIN, the patentee of the boiler, was recalled, to explain certain facts ...

Peter Kennedy, 51, was trying to reignite the boiler when the explosion happened and a steam tank burst. Kennedy suffered severe burns to 60 per cent of his body and he died in hospital early the ...

CBC News has learned federal inspectors haven't even stepped inside an Ottawa boiler plant almost one year after the department of Public Works was sentenced in a 2009 explosion, despite a court ...

I HAVE noticed a curious misapprehension, even on the part of high authorities, with respect to the application of Carnot's law to an engine in which the steam is superheated after leaving the boiler.

Kennedy pushed the button to restart the boiler and there was an explosion. Kennedy suffered burns to 60 per cent of his body. Two others were also burned. In November 2012, Public Works pleaded ...

Susan Woods narrowly missed being chopped in half after a disused central heating boiler exploded at her home in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, causing mortar and rubble to fly through the air.