List_of_boiler_explosions

List of boiler explosions

List of boiler explosions

List of steam boiler explosions such as railway locomotive, marine transport, and stationary power

This is a list of steam boiler explosions such as railway locomotive, marine transport (military and civilian), and stationary power:

Etching of damage from a boiler explosion in Newark, New Jersey in 1867

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See also

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Sources

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Further reading

Contemporary listings and accounts

Other

  • For a short status of European steam users' associations and boiler insurance companies c. 1897, see Hale, R. S. (April 1897). "European Boiler Practice". Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies. XVIII (4): 242–243. Retrieved 13 June 2009.
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