Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,711 pages of information and 247,105 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
Stephen Wilcox, Jr. (February 12, 1830 – November 27, 1893) of Babcock and Wilcox
1880 George Herman Babcock and Stephen Wilcox co-invented and patented a safer water tube steam boiler, and founded the Babcock & Wilcox boiler company.
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