Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American Journal of Science and Arts, Vol. 19: January, 1831 Remark - An intelligent correspondent sates, as the result of his own inquiries, that not less than one thousand and five hundred persons have been destroyed in this country by explosions of steam boilers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.