Steam Tugboat Explosion
S. N. Hartwell
1881
Scientific American
titutific �tutrintu. NOVEL DEVICE FOR WATERING ANIMALS. ances indicate that the initial rupture was along the other emerge from the sewers and join those placed upon poles. The device shown in the annexed cut furnishes a constant margin of this piece, along the lap of the seam where a con-The cable made of the twisted wires is attached firmly supply of clean water and prevents waste, and is therefore tinuous groove had resulted from corrosion on the . fire side to the arched roof or top of the
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... ewer, and thus raised above well adapted for watering animals, and especially hogs. A of the plate, and having progressed faster, probably from I all interference from water, except in case of floods. The barrel, B, is sunk into the ground, and is connected with a unobserved leaks , gave way first. The sketch, Fig. 3 , shows' cables are laid by men enveloped in rubber clothing and tank, A, or a pond or water main, by a subterranean pipe, the construction of the parts on a larger scale. The leak provided with safety lanterns, provision being made for C, which projects a few inches iuto the bottom of the barrel. that caused the corrosion of the fire side of the plate was conducting fre�h air to the workmen by means of India. A pivoted gate or valve rests upon the end of this pipe, and probably only a sweating leak, which is the most dangerous rubber tubes attached to their rubber suits. The wires are the other end of the valve is connected with a float, E, because it is most likely to escape observation. If this had passed down through the man holes of the sewers. which is so arranged that when the barrel is filled the end been a case of a dripping leak probably the surface below .. , • , • of the pipe, C, is closed by the action of the float; but as the seam would have suffered most, and perhaps have given VELOCIPEDE CARRIAGE.
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican06251881-403a
fatcat:3pndabutxbfc7nkbgnyj2gzlrq