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INTRODUCTION ## History of Piping and Vessel Codes The realization of the need for codes did not become apparent until the invention of the steam engine. The first commercially successful steam engine was patented by Thomas Savery of England in 1698. The Savery engine, and the numerous improved engines which followed, marked the beginning of the industrial revolution. This new economical source of power was used to drive machines in factories and even enabled new and faster forms of transportation to be developed. The boilers of these early steam engines were little more than tea kettles where direct heating of the boiler wall was the method used to generate the steam. These crude boilers were the beginning of pressure containment systems. Boiler designers and constructors had to rely only on their acquired knowledge in producing boilers because there were no design and construction codes to guide them in their efforts to manufacture a safe operating steam boiler. Their knowledge was inadequate as evidenced by the numerous boiler explosions that occurred. A few of the more spectacular explosions will be mentioned. On April 27, 1865, at the conclusion of the Civil War, 2,021 Union p

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Author

Glynn E Woods, Roy B. Baguley; executive editor, John E. Bringas

Publisher

CASTI Publishing Inc.,Canada

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9781894038324

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Engineering, Technology, Industrial Equipment And Technology