coal-fired boiler (1957); design and supply of reactors for the first U.S. built nuclear-powered surface ship, (1961).

History

In 1867, Stephen Wilcox, Jr. and his partner George Herman Babcock, of Providence, Rhode Island, patented their so-called safety boiler ("Improvements in Steam Generators", U.S. Patent No. 65,042). Its water was dispersed in many small tubes that resisted exploding when heated, a significant advance over conventional

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