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Steam launch, includes, on the Thames, 'any vessel propelled by steam, electricity, or other mechanical power, no tbeing used solely as a tug or for the carriage of goods and not being certified by the Board of Trade as a passenger steamer to carry 200 or more passengers,' and must be registered, display lights after sunset and before sunrise, etc., Thames Conservancy Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii.), ss. 3, 138, 147, 148; see now the consolidating Thames Conservancy Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. xxxvii.); Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Thames.'...
Steam whistles
Steam whistles. The use of steam whistles in certain manufactories is regulated by the Steam Whistles Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 61)....
Steam-pipe
Steam-pipe, 'stamp-pipe' means any pipe through which steam passes from a boiler to a prime mover or other user or both, if--(i) the pressure at which steam passes through such pipe excludes 3.5 kilograms per square centimeter above atmospheric pressure(ii) such pipe exceeds 254 millimeters in internal diameter and includes in either case any connected fitting of a streams pipe. [Boilers Act, 1923 (5 of 1923), s. 2(f)]...
Steam engines
Steam engines. As to the negligent use of the furnaces of these, see the Steam Engine Furnaces Act, 1831; and as to damaging or obstructing them, see (English) Malicious Damage Act, 1861, ss. 29, 35, 36. See also ss. 114-116 of the (English) Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, and the Railway Fires Act, 1905, as amended by 13 & 14 Geo. 5, c. 27; Martin v. G.E. Ry. Co., (1912) 2 KB 406. See ENGINE; ROAD TRAFFIC....
Factory
Factory, a place where a number of traders reside in a foreign country for the convenience of trade; also a building in which goods are manufactured.In the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, 'Factory' means by s. 149 'textile factory and non-textile factory, or either of those descriptions of factories.'The expression 'textile factory' means any premises wherein or within the close or curtilage of which steam, water or other mechanical power is used to move or work any machinery employed in preparing, manufacturing or finishing or in any process incident to the manufacture of cotton, wool, hair, silk, flax, hemp, jute, tow, china-grass, cocoanut fibre or other like material, either separately or mixed together or mixed with any other material, or any fabric made thereof:Provided that print works, bleaching and dyeing works, lace warehouses, paper mills, flax scutch mills, rope works and hat works shall not be deemed to be textiles factories.'Tenement factory' means a factory when mechanic...
Boiler Explosions Act
Boiler Explosions Act, 1882 (English) (45 & 46Vict. c. 22), whereby detailed notice of an explosion from any boiler, i.e. (s. 3), 'any closed vessel used for generating steam, or for heating water, or for heating other liquids, or into which steam is admitted for heating, steaming, boiling, or other similar purposes,' must be sent within 24 hours by the 'owner or user,' or their agent, to the Board of Trade, who have power to order an inquiry with respect to the explosion. Boilers used exclusively for domestic purposes, and boilers used in the service of his Majesty or on board certificated steamships, were exempted from the Act, and so were some boiler explosions in mines, but an amending 'Boiler Explosions Act, 1890,' repeals these exemptions, except those for Crown and domestic boilers. A pipe may be a 'boiler' within this Act, R. v. Commissioners, (1891) 1 QB 703; but a boiler used for heating business premises in within the exception, Smith v. Muller, (1894) 1 QB 192....
Proof
Proof, does not mean proof to rigid mathematical demonstration, because that is impossible; it must mean such evidence as would induce a reasonable man to come to a particular conclusion, Hawkins v. Powells Tillery Steam Coal Co. Ltd., (1911) 1 KB 988: 1911 WN 53.Proof, evidence, testimony, convincing token means of conviction. Also standard strength of spirituous liquids.See BURDEN OR PROOF; EVIDENCE; BANK-RUPTCY; WINDING-UP.The word 'proof' need be understood in the sense in which it is defined in the Evidence Act because proof depends upon the admissibility of evidence. A fact is said to be proved when, after considering the matters before it, the court either believes it to exist, or considers its existence so probable that a prudent man ought, under the circumstances of the particular case, to act upon the supposition that it exists. This is the definition given for the word 'proved' in the Evidence Act. What is required is production of such materials on which the court can reaso...
Blast pipe
The exhaust pipe of a steam engine or any pipe delivering steam or air when so constructed as to cause a blast...
BWR
a boiling water reactor a type of nuclear reactor that uses water as a coolant and moderator the steam produced can drive a steam turbine and produce electrical power...
Flash boiler
A variety of water tube boiler used chiefly in steam automobiles consisting of a nest of strong tubes with very little water space kept nearly red hot so that the water as it trickles drop by drop into the tubes is immediately flashed into steam and superheated...
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