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Babcock, George Herman
| (1832-1893), U.S. mechanical engineer and ASME's 6th president (1887), was an inventor with numerous patents (among them two on printing presses and a bronzing machine). Together, he and boyhood friend Stephen Wilcox patented pumps and steam engines. In 1867 they patented a water-tube boiler designed to avoid explosions (May 28, 65,042), based on the Wilcox safety water-tube boiler of 1856, and formed the firm of Babcock & Wilcox (incorporated 1881), the first to manufacture water-tube boilers on a large scale. Babcock was born June 17, 1832, in Unadilla Forks, New York, and died Dec. 16, 1893, in Plainfield, New Jersey. |
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