| William Davis Haskoll - 1864 - 214 pages
...police of New York upon upwards of 3000 steam boilers at work in that city. Mr. Fletcher, the engineer to the Manchester Association for the Prevention of Steam Boiler Explosions, and who has occasion to examine more boilers, perhaps, than any other man living, applies and strongly... | |
| James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1871 - 616 pages
...The Manchester Steam Users' Association was founded 15 years ago under the original title of " The Association for the Prevention of Steam Boiler Explosions,...effecting Economy in the Raising and Use of Steam." It was established by a few philanthropic and disinterested gentlemen connected with manufactures,... | |
| 1871 - 598 pages
...measures. The Manchester Steam Users' Association was founded 15 years ago under the original title of "The Association for the Prevention of Steam Boiler Explosions,...effecting Economy in the Raising and Use of Steam." It was established by a few philanthropic and disinterested gentlemen connected with manufactures,... | |
| Edward Johnson Rimmer - 1912 - 164 pages
...company was an association founded in 1854 (now the Manchester Steam Users Association) and called " The Association for the Prevention of Steam Boiler Explosions,...effecting economy in the raising and use of steam," and this association has been followed by the other five insurance companies formed for the same purpose,... | |
| 1917 - 278 pages
...caused disaster. This method of safeguarding boilers had been practiced in England since 1855 when "The Association for the Prevention of Steam Boiler Explosions...Effecting Economy in the Raising and Use of Steam" was organized and commenced its operations. Other similar associations had followed in that country... | |
| Peter J. Kalis, Thomas M. Reiter, James R. Segerdahl - 1997 - 1728 pages
...explosions, a group of English engineers formed a boiler inspection service, known as the "Huddersfield Association for the Prevention of Steam Boiler Explosions...and for Effecting Economy in the Raising and Use of Steam."6 This group was followed in 1 860 by the "Polytechnic Club," based in Hartford, Connecticut;... | |
| Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) - 1857 - 526 pages
...Steam.* From the Report of the Committee of Management presented to the Second Annual Meeting of " the Association for the Prevention of Steam Boiler Explosions,...Effecting Economy in the Raising and Use of Steam," held at the Town Hall, Manchester, on Tuesday, the 20th day of January, 1857, we learn that the number... | |
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