A vessel used to raise the temperature of a liquid (usually water) by transferring heat from a fuel source (such as fossil fuels or electricity). Some boilers are designed to raise steam under pressure to generate power; other boilers, such as those...

Furnaces and boilers are devices that burn fuel to space heat homes, offices, and industrial facilities. Natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, and heating oil are the dominant fuels used for furnaces and boilers. In the United States, furnaces and...

A boiler is a closed vessel in which water or other fluid is heated. The heated or vaporized fluid exits the boiler for use in various processes or heating...

Dateline: early 1960s. Location: telephone company office on Manhattan Island. Time: noon hour. Without any advance warning, a 40-foot-long boiler tears loose from its bolt in the cement, blasts through a reinforced concrete wall and travels 400 feet though the office, plowing through six...

With rising fuel costs, outdoor wood boilers have become increasingly popular in Maine, prompting complaints from one end of the state to another and a patchwork of local bans and restrictions. To reduce pollution from the smoky furnaces and to have one set of...

Rob and Lynne Wallace jumped at the chance to install an outdoor wood boiler two years ago to heat their home and water supply.For a year, they were immune to fluctuating fuel oil prices. Their family-owned tree service provided more than enough wood, stacked under...

A boiler explosion Monday knocked down part of a five-story building housing military families in southeastern Turkey's largest city, killing at least six people, authorities said.Rescuers were still trying to reach two people believed trapped under the rubble in Diyarbakir. Among the dead were four...