1905 Disasters - 1905 Fires, 1905 Natural Disasters, Railway Accidents in 1905, Grover Shoe Factory Disaster, Witham Rail Crash (Paperback)


Chapters: 1905 Fires, 1905 Natural Disasters, Railway Accidents in 1905, Grover Shoe Factory Disaster, Witham Rail Crash, 1905 Calabria Earthquake, Hall Road Rail Accident, Charing Cross Roof Collapse. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Grover Shoe Factory disaster was an industrial explosion, building collapse and fire that killed 58 people and injured 150 when it leveled the R. B. Grover shoe factory in Brockton, Massachusetts on March 20, 1905. Following a boiler explosion, the four-story wooden building collapsed and the ruins burst into flames, incinerating workers trapped in the wreckage. The Grover disaster brought new attention to industrial safety and led to stringent safety laws and a national code governing the safe operation of steam boilers. The R. B. Grover shoe factory was big, but not the biggest in Brockton, a town that had 35,000 shoe workers. The wooden building, shaped like a letter E, occupied half a city block. Grover made the popular Emerson brand shoe, and business had been good enough to add a fourth floor. The factory was heated using steam radiators, with the steam being produced by coal-fired steel boilers installed in a brick boiler house attached to the wooden factory as the crossbar of the E. When the fourth floor was added, the original boiler was replaced by a larger one and the old boiler, 17 feet long and six feet in diameter, was left in place as a backup. Since the new boiler could generally meet the factory's demands on its own, the old one was seldom used; and when used, was used reluctantly. Grover's chief engineer David Rockwell, who had a first-class engineer's license and twelve years experience, did not trust it. The new boiler had to be flushed out as part of its regular maintenance, so Rockwell h...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1862240

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Chapters: 1905 Fires, 1905 Natural Disasters, Railway Accidents in 1905, Grover Shoe Factory Disaster, Witham Rail Crash, 1905 Calabria Earthquake, Hall Road Rail Accident, Charing Cross Roof Collapse. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Grover Shoe Factory disaster was an industrial explosion, building collapse and fire that killed 58 people and injured 150 when it leveled the R. B. Grover shoe factory in Brockton, Massachusetts on March 20, 1905. Following a boiler explosion, the four-story wooden building collapsed and the ruins burst into flames, incinerating workers trapped in the wreckage. The Grover disaster brought new attention to industrial safety and led to stringent safety laws and a national code governing the safe operation of steam boilers. The R. B. Grover shoe factory was big, but not the biggest in Brockton, a town that had 35,000 shoe workers. The wooden building, shaped like a letter E, occupied half a city block. Grover made the popular Emerson brand shoe, and business had been good enough to add a fourth floor. The factory was heated using steam radiators, with the steam being produced by coal-fired steel boilers installed in a brick boiler house attached to the wooden factory as the crossbar of the E. When the fourth floor was added, the original boiler was replaced by a larger one and the old boiler, 17 feet long and six feet in diameter, was left in place as a backup. Since the new boiler could generally meet the factory's demands on its own, the old one was seldom used; and when used, was used reluctantly. Grover's chief engineer David Rockwell, who had a first-class engineer's license and twelve years experience, did not trust it. The new boiler had to be flushed out as part of its regular maintenance, so Rockwell h...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1862240

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978-1-157-73988-3

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