Blowback : An Anecdotal Look at Pressure Equipment and Other Harmless Fdevices That Can Kill You!

from WaltNoise

I expected Blowback to be a mildly interesting technical book about boiler explosions (and avoiding them, of course). Instead, it is a comprehensive overview of pressure explosions of all sorts, from beer kegs to natural gas storage facilities. There is a very interesting chapter on steam cars. V...

from PallanDavid

"Blowback" is a BLAST!! Ha-ha! Play on words but totally and completely meant! Not only do we get a general history and importance of the steam engine/boilers, we get a good, solid understanding of how they work - what they do when they work properly and what they do when they don't work properly...

from LarryMicheli

This was an interesting book. You knew pressure equipment was dangerous but the tragedies shown in the book far outweigh the knowledge I had about the real dangers and destructive power of pressure equipment that is not only defective but poorly maintained. The book is well written with many actu...

from Megi53

When I received this book, I immediately sat down to flip through it from cover to cover and skim through all the parts that looked the most interesting. It took me many weeks after that to return and read it word-for-word. Then, it turned out that the most interesting part was a chapter I hadn't...

from gwernin

An interesting and attractive coffee table type look at the dangers of a variety of pressure devices, including steamboats (frequently lethal to their passengers), locomotives (slightly less dangerous but with impressive destructive potential), gas-connected explosions (wow!), boilers (ditto), ca...