boiler

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On the Chesapeake Bay, market hunters favored punt guns—cannons weighing up to 200 pounds, with barrels made from boiler pipe—that could bring down 100 ducks with one shot.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

Installing one likely involves some new pipework, and often new radiators; it is not something you can just get one day when the gas boiler packs up.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026

Currently they're more expensive than a gas boiler to install, and can also end up more expensive to run.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026

Whereas a gas boiler might heat water to 70C to run round your radiators, heat pumps work better at 45C.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026

He saw the engine rooms and the boiler rooms, and wound up on the third-class recreation deck.

From "I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912" by Lauren Tarshis