boilermaker

     

A boilermaker is a traine craftsman who produces steel fabrications from plates and sections. The name originated from craftsmen who would fabricate boilers, but they may work on projects as diverse as bridges to blast furnaces.

Trivia about boilermaker

  • The builder of a ship's water heater, especially if he played for Purdue
  • A shot & a beer
  • A whiskey & beer drink, or what Richard Trevithick had to be to make the first locomotive
  • A collegiate mascot from West Lafayette, Indiana