Power Volume 45, No. 12 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ...without smoke. Oil is the fuel. Several heating plants in Providence have been using oil successfully, burning it in a low-pressure burner of the rotary mechanical type. The advantages are quick steaming and no banking of fires. % Industrial Safety Exposition During the week ending Mar. 10 the Ohio Industrial Commission held at Columbus its third annual industrial safety exposition in the interest of accident prevention, industrial health and hygiene and fire prevention. The exhibitors comprised the State Industrial Commission, the safety departments of a number of the railroads, manufacturing companies, business houses and public-service companies. There was naturally considerable duplication, and the effect of this on some was a loss of Interest, while to others it accentuated the extent of safety work in industries. It is to be hoped that each state will soon have large technical museums for the permanent display of all manner of safety devices, fatigue reducers and many other things of technical and industrial interest. Among the exhibits were safety goggles, wheelbarrowhandle protectors, stay-bolts, safety lathe dogs, glass guards ugainst lathe chips, safety emery-wheel dressers, dust catchers and conveyors, molders' shoes, etc.; statistics of the number of accidents and deaths in the industries of the state and their cause; alcoholic contribution to disease and accidents; models on a small scale of badly lighted and well-Illuminated factories, showing by contrast the probability of more accidents in the former; the danger of carelessness on streets on the part of pedestrians, drivers, chauffeurs, children at play and street-car passengers. The boiler-inspection department showed samples of grooved and cracked sheets, rivets in...