Bronze Valve
Bronze Valve Here is a light hearted history and trivia on the ball valve. Read it and you will never take your natural gas or electricity for granted again, ok so maybe you will.
The humble ball valve has a checkered history and somewhat murky origins. Bronze Valves It may not be cloak and dagger stuff, but it’s not without mystery… Take a look around to see where the ball valve is indispensable.
For example, the ball valve is crucial to the petroleum industry, water, electric power, chemical, paper, pharmaceuticals, food, steel and other fields. If it seems we could not get a long without the ball valve, it’s probably true! Given the importance of the ball valve today, it’s a mystery why it took so long to invent. Butterfly Valve
Ball Valve history does not go back to ancient Greece or the American revolution or does it? The modern ball vale was invented in 1967 or about 1957 according to different sources. Butterfly Valves Who cares when the ball valve was invented? Besides the patented owner, probably not many people.
Carbon Steel Valve
Still the ball valve was major advancement over plug valves used in the 20th century. The earliest ball valves were commercially available around 1967. For ancient parallels, the ruins of Pompeii turned up a bronze tapered plug quarter turn valve that resembles to the ball valve today. How’s that for a ball valve mystery?