Tom Scott, The Older One | Battleship Texas, Making Steam @tomscotttheolderone364 | Uploaded July 2021 | Updated October 2024, 49 minutes ago.
This is the first of two videos that will show the boilers and boiler rooms on Battleship Texas. Today, we will take an up close and personal look at one of the boilers to give you some understanding of how it worked. Like just about everything else on the ship, its technology is long obsolete and largely forgotten. However, that doesn't mean that it wasn't extremely complex and that it wasn't the result of exceptional engineering. Another video will follow in the near future that will walk us through its boiler room where we will see the extreme complexity of the fuel and water feeds and steam pipes that were required to reliably propel the ship and resist battle damage.