OCR Text |
Show AUTOMATIC ALARMS ARE NOT RELIABLE . ANN ARBOR. Mich.. Nov. 24. Prof. M. E. Cooley, dean of the engineering department of the University of Michigan, Michi-gan, has condemned1 the use of automatic auto-matic low water alarms with which a Michigan statute required all stationary station-ary engines to be equipped. 1 Prof. Cooley stated that he bad advised ad-vised companies by whpm he Is employed em-ployed as consulting engineer not to comply with the law. He declared that the danger of explosion is greater where these alarms are used for the reason that none of them are perfect, the best of them clogging up and becoming useless use-less from dirt, the action of water and other causes, and that persons in charge of boilers equipped with these so-called alarms rely on the apparatus to give notice of danger and thus Increase the chances of explosion and disaster. Prof. Cooley expressed the emphatic opinion that the law In question should be repealed by. the next Legislature, |