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Originally posted by: DonDiegoQuote
Originally posted by: pjstroh
There's about 1000 dead Chinese workers that might refute that statement.
DonDiego thought the discussion was about the combustion characteristics of the Chevy Volt
vs the Apple iPad3. He apologizes.
On January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts in the United States, the Purity Distilling molasses storage tank burst, and a wave of molasses rushed through the streets at an estimated 35 mph, killing 21 and injuring 150 persons.
Subsequently there were about 125 lawsuits filed against the United States Industrial Alcohol Company, which had purchased Purity Distilling in 1917.
There were so many lawyers involved, that there wasn't room enough in the courthouse to hold them all, so they consolidated and chose two to represent the claimants. Altogether, more than 3,000 witnesses were examined and nearly 45,000 pages of testimony and arguments were recorded. The defendants spent over $50,000 on expert witness fees, claiming the collapse was not due to a structural weakness but rather to a dynamite bomb.When Auditor Ogden made his report, he found the defendants responsible for the disaster because the molasses tank, which was fifty-eight feet high and ninety feet across, was not strong enough to withstand the pressure of the 2,500,000 gallons it was designed to hold. In other words, the "factor of safety" was not high enough.
And so the owners of the tank paid in all nearly a million dollars in damages—and the great Molasses Case passed into history.
DonDiego invites other posters to report on any public, private or corporate accidents or malfeasance, whether historical, actual, on-going, or possible-in-the-future so as to clarify the question of combustibility of the Chevy Volt
vs the Apple iPad3.
