Word: accidentally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The chamber was severely damaged in an explosion at the CEA experimental hall July 5 while it was being filled with liquid hydrogen for the first time. It is now being rebuilt in a converted warehouse in Billerica, 25 miles north of Boston. Since hydrogen from the chamber is believed...
Get-Up-&-Go. Prairie wagons were built for maneuverability and speed-but were not expected to outlast their westward journey. Steamboat racing became a popular passion, despite its appalling accident record: between 1825 and 1850 at least 150 major explosions on western steamboats ("half boat, half alligator") killed more than...
Many CEA scientists now believe the explosion was touched up by liquid hydrogen which spilled while being fed into the experimental hall's bubble chamber. The CEA is considering requesting funds for a separate bubble chamber building on the grounds so that an accident would be much less destructive there...
Another workman said after the accident that the scaffolding had a tendency to sway. When one of the painters started to remove a screen from a third floor window, he lost his balance and grabbed a wooden guardrail which then broken.