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Item
Title
D37660-2
Date(s)
- 1949-01-19 (Creation)
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Name of creator
(1919-1980)
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Birchfield Boiler is producing three mammoth boilers, in addition to the standard sized heating and power boilers; the company also produces steel constructed ships. View of E. E. Smith (top) and Oscar Hagin (bottom) welding one of the largest boilers ever to have been made by an American manufacturer. This steel boiler is seven feet 2 inches wide, and 13 feet 4 inches long; shipping weight for the boiler will be 23,400 pounds (T. Times, 1/23/49, p. 31).
Boilers; Boiler industry--Tacoma; Industrial facilities--Tacoma; Welding--Tacoma; Metalworking--Tacoma; Iron & steel workers--Tacoma; Birchfield Boiler, Inc. (Tacoma);