A factory, mill, or manufacturing facility where boilers are designed, manufactured, assembled, and/or repaired on a large scale.
Compound of 'boiler' and 'works' (from Old English 'werc', meaning labor or undertaking). The plural 'works' became standard for industrial facilities starting in the 18th century.
Major boilerworks were industrial cities within cities—places like the Babcock & Wilcox boilerworks in New Jersey were vertical operations where iron came in one end and finished boilers left the other, employing hundreds of specialized workers in distinct sections.
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