BABCOCK & WILCOX - Patent Water Tube Marine Boilers [cover title].

London & New York, 1899. 117pp including high-quality photo illustrations, diagrams. Boards. 28x22. Covers quite scuffed, contents good. An early publicity item for this firm, with excellent photos of American gunboats, tugs, Nile passenger steamers etc. The Babcock & Wilcox firm was founded in New Jersey in 1867, when it patented its first water tube boiler design. A sales office was opened in Glasgow in 1881 and the main UK works was at Renfrew. The first British-built boiler design by the Company was completed on Clydeside in 1885.

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