If anyone is qualified to write a history of steam boiler explosions, it is Lancastrian boiler maker Alan McEwen, and here he looks in detail at 34 boiler explosions that occurred in Great Britain between 1845 and 1921. He also describes the considerable variety of industrial boiler designs, as well as locomotive and marine boilers, and the underlying reasons why steam boilers did explode. The bulk of the explosions covered where in factories of various types, but road, rail and marine boiler explosions also feature. Great book with a considerable amount of social history interwoven with the technical details. 185 pages, full of B&W illustrations, drawings and photographs. Hardbound. Sledgehammer Engineering Press

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