In the early days of stationary building steam heating systems there was the mistaken idea that you needed high pressure to heat a home or other building, and there were a number of nasty explosions, and for about 50 years steam heat fell out of favor, especially in Europe.
Someone finally realized that home systems worked perfectly well at ounces of pressure, not pounds, meaning you essentially had a tea kettle in your basement, not a pressure vessel bomb.
Steam systems were accepted more readily in the US, especially starting after the Civil War, likely because all of the major kinks had been worked out of the systems.
The house I grew up in had been fitted with steam heat some years after it was built.
It never went boom once.