Grover Shoe Factory disaster

But boilers store enormous energy.

On March 10, 1905, an older backup boiler exploded at the Grover Shoe Factory in Brockton, Massachusetts.

It tore up through three floors and the roof.

The collapse and the fires killed 58 people and injured 117.

Remove what makes it dangerous to begin with.

In March of 1905, a steam-powered boiler at the Grover Shoe Factory in Brockton, Massachusetts, right down the road here, exploded, blasting through three floors and the roof of the building and killing 58 people and injuring more than 100 others.

Did people conclude from that that steam power had become too powerful for humans? No.

They concluded we don't yet have adequate controls for steam power.