For all of which the public at large, whose hourly peril, in the street, in the house, in the rain, in the steamer, -- everywhere, -- is to be violently killed by a boiler explosion, has reason to ...

Probably one of the most ferocious exhibitions of the force of steam from a destroyed steamer's boiler ever witnessed in the United States was the explosion on the river packet Moselle in 1838 ...

As the Canadian paddle-wheel steamer Comet was pulling away from the Customs House dock in Oswego at 3 p.m. on April 21, 1851 ...

Working together with Lillie, he built the Lord Dundas, an iron paddle-steamer in Manchester in 1830 ... In 1844, Fairbairn developed the Lancashire boiler and later researched metal fatigue ...

A detailed retelling of the Lusitania’s final voyage and sinking, 110 years ago, through passenger stories and wartime ...

In 1948, a devastating boiler explosion in Chillicothe, Ohio turned a steam locomotive into a twisted mass of metal and marked a symbolic end to steam’s dominance in American rail. Though not ...

One person died from a steam engine explosion at the Oak Grove Power Plant ... 8 a.m. during the commissioning of a new auxiliary boiler. "Our on-site team immediately called 911 and implemented ...

NEW YORK (AP) — One man died Saturday morning after an explosion on a boat docked on the Hudson River in New York, authorities said. The man was doing work involving a flame or sparks when the ...

T Coronae Borealis is normally too faint to see without a telescope, but the explosion caused by the nova will be visible to the naked eye. The nova won’t look like an explosion, but like a new ...

The Missouri Attorney General on Monday filed suit against Liberty Utilities for last month’s natural gas explosion in Lexington, Missouri, that killed a 5-year-old boy, sent his sister and father to ...