General Report on the Explosion of Steam Boilers

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This 1836 report came from the Committee of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the Promotion of the Mechanical Arts. They were writing at a time when boilers were sailing through the air just about every day. Imagine that. 

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