The first edition of the Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, known as the 1914

edition, was a single 114-page volume.It developed over time into the ASME Boiler
and Pressure Vessel code, which today has over 92,000 copies in use, in over 100
countries around the world.As of March 2011 the document consisted of 16,000 pages
in 28 volumes

ASME convened the Board of Boiler Rules before it became the ASME Boiler Code
Committee which was formed in 1911. This committee put in the form work for the
first edition of the ASME Boiler Code - Rules for the Construction of Stationary
Boilers and for the Allowable Working Pressures, which was issued in 1914 and
published in 1915