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Identifier: locomotive36hart (find matches)
Title: The Locomotive
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company
Subjects: Locomotives Steam-boiler explosions
Publisher: Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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rd that gives a brief outline of its history. Forgotten by the public at large, still Menlo Park means some-thing to the electric light industry. This year public utilities throughoutthe country are participating in a Golden Jubilee demonstration markingthe 50th anniversary of Edisons invention of the incandescent lamp andacknowledging its tremendous influence in making electricity a com-modity almost as universally used as food and clothing — an influencewhich obviously had much to do with dotting the country from coastto coast with big central stations which now meet the demand of anever-increasing electrical load. In a sense, then, Edisons plant at Menlo Park, with its small boiler,engine, and dynamo which sent current through the first group ofincandescent lamps and drove the experimental trolley cars, was reallythe forerunner of the huge central stations of today. Through thecourtesy of the builders we are privileged to reproduce herein the 1929. T H E L. O C O M C) T I V E 209
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KW 1—1 o ;<^ c . d H^ H U CO om Figure i 210 THE LOCOMOTIVE July. original layout drawing of the boiler which the Babcock & Wilcox Com-pany installed in that plant in 1878. It will be noted that although the Tubulous Safety boiler resembles the modern water tube boiler inmany respects, there are features about it which have long since beensuperseded. One of the most striking points of dissimilarity between

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  • bookid:locomotive36hart
  • bookyear:1867
  • bookdecade:1860
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Hartford_Steam_Boiler_Inspection_and_Insurance_Company
  • booksubject:Locomotives
  • booksubject:Steam_boiler_explosions
  • bookpublisher:Hartford__Ct____Hartford_Steam_Boiler_Inspection_and_Insurance_Co
  • bookcontributor:Carnegie_Library_of_Pittsburgh
  • booksponsor:Lyrasis_Members_and_Sloan_Foundation
  • bookleafnumber:486
  • bookcollection:carnegie_lib_pittsburgh
  • bookcollection:americana
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