[A transcriber's note follows the text.] RECORDS OF STEAM BOILER EXPLOSIONS, BY EDWARD BINDON MARTEN, MEM. INST. OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS; ASSOCIATE OF INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS, AND CHIEF ENGINEER TO THE MIDLAND STEAM BOILER INSPECTION AND ASSURANCE CO. LONDON; E. & F. N. SPON, 48, CHARING CROSS. STOURBRIDGE: R. BROOMHALL, 148, HIGH STREET. 1872. PREFACE. Accurate information as to Boiler Explosions must always be useful to those who are interested in the safe working of Steam Boilers. The following pages contain very brief abstracts of records obtained for the Midland Steam Boiler Inspection and Assurance Company, by whose permission they are now republished in a compact and convenient form. By permission of the Council of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the records are prefaced by a Paper on Steam Boiler Explosions and their records, and on Inspection as a means of prevention, read before that Institution at Manchester, August 1st, 1866, and a further Paper on the "Conclusions derived from the experience of recent Steam Boiler Explosions," read before the same Institution at Nottingham, August 3rd, 1870. All names of Works or Firms are omitted from the records as unnecessary. ON STEAM BOILER EXPLOSIONS AND THEIR RECORDS, AND ON INSPECTION AS A MEANS OF PREVENTION, BY EDWARD B. MARTEN, MEM. INST. M.E. A.I.C.E., EXCERPT MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE MEETING OF THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, AT MANCHESTER, 1ST AUGUST, 1866, JOSEPH WHITWORTH, ESQ., PRESIDENT, IN THE CHAIR. BY PERMISSION OF THE COUNCIL.