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History of tube rolling

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Ken Heselton
Ken Heselton Member Posts: 5
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Does anyone know who first came up with the concept of inserting tubes through a boiler and rolling them? After all, it's one element of boiler construction that has survived for decades and had to be a significant breakthrough in boiler design when it was first conceived.

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  • Ken Heselton
    Ken Heselton Member Posts: 5
    History of tube rolling

    Does anyone know who first came up with the concept of inserting tubes through a boiler and rolling them? After all, it's one element of boiler construction that has survived for decades and had to be a significant breakthrough in boiler design when it was first conceived.
  • bob_44
    bob_44 Member Posts: 112
    I'll take a

    semi educated guess and say Babcock&Wilcox in 1867. They expanded(I am assuming they rolled them to expand them) wrought iron tubes into cast iron headers. Prior to that they had tried casting the headers around the tubes. bob
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