Published Resources Details Journal Article
- Title
- The Bullfinch disaster
- In
- The Engineer
- Description of Work
- Letter to the Editor by E. Crowe
- Imprint
- vol. 88, 6 October 1899, p. 357
- Description
Accession No.606
- Abstract
The author assumed that the stresses involved in the failure of the connecting rod of the Bullfinch were only direct tension or compression, and calculated the maximum stress to be 56,830 pounds per square inch.