Babcock and Wilcox Boiler Model
name: label: maker
content: Babcock and Wilcox
notes: label: Description
content: This is a half-size model of the boiler that won the award for sectional steam generators at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876. It was in service until recent years and is now preserved by the Babcock and Wilcox Co., the makers.
label: Description
content: The boiler represented is a hand-fired, inclined-tube boiler, with two parallel longitudinal drums connected by a cross steam drum. The headers are of the earliest type of cast-steel sinuous header and are seven tubes high. The boiler is suspended from two cast-iron arched beams that rest upon the side walls of the brickwork. The highly ornamental cast-iron front is trimmed in gold paint. The boiler is equipped with a ball-and-lever safety valve, three water-level sight gauges, and a pressure gauge.
label: Description
content: The Centennial boiler was sold to the De Castro and Donner Sugar Refinery in Brooklyn, New York, after the exposition and was continued in service through the early 20th century.
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: This description comes from the 1939 Catalog of the Mechanical Collections of the Division of Engineering United States Museum Bulletin 173 by Frank A. Taylor.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view (Part)
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
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content: Bulletin 173
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content: Engineering, Building, and Architecture
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content: Work
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Frank A. Taylor. Catalog of the Mechanical Collections of the Division of Engineering United States National Museum, Bulletin 173
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Babcock & Wilcox Company, New York, New York
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ER.309868
label: accession number
content: 110403
label: catalog number
content: 309868
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Babcock & Wilcox boiler model
label: Object Name
content: boiler, model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass, wood (compenent: rod material)
label: Measurements
content: overall - mount: 15 5/8 in x 15 in x 3 3/8 in; 39.6875 cm x 38.1 cm x 8.5725 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall - large rod: 24 3/4 in x 1/2 in; 62.865 cm x 1.27 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall - small rod: 10 1/2 in x 3/8 in; 26.67 cm x .9525 cm