The Code: An Authorized History of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code

Contents include: Codes in Action, Generations Past, Boiler Failures, Personalities and Pioneers, Building a Head of Steam, Progress and Challenges, Standards and Standardization, The Decade of Power, Pushing the Limits, The “Great Period”, Pressure Vessel Code Development, The Technology of Examination and Testing, Keeping Abreast of Technology, The Code Goes to War, The Nuclear Dawn, History Repeated, Achievements and Setbacks, and A Century of Progress.