Most modern boilers used in power generation roles are water tube boilers. With a water-tube design, water tubes are heated until the desired steam is produced. Such boilers have two key advantages: safety and they can often handle higher pressure.

A book published in 1901 simply titled Water Tube Boilers provides some insight into the ...

There are an amazing variety of boiler designs. Without an effective boiler, a steam engine is just a work of art.

The simplest boilers are often called pot boilers - they are easiest to make, but they also take the longest to get a good head of steam and they use a lot of fuel for the steam they produce. ...

Ever meet a cook that couldn't even boil water?

Many newcomers to building model steam engines don't give a second thought to boilers. When they meet some engineer and tell them they are about to build a boiler and the engineer gives them a stern warning about exploding boilers and how amateurs ought not build ...

Most model plans for steam engines tell you to use compressed air to run the engine. Most model engine shows provide compressed air and strictly disallow use of live steam. Recently, I was digging for some information on John Ericsson's Hot Air engines and ran across a piece from the New York Times dating back to the 1860's - it ...