. Electric railway gazette . Power Company, building smallengines with the safety boilers. This was con-tinued for a number of years, during which themanufacture of the boiler based on Mr. Wilcoxsinvention was begun, and it gradually assumedsuch proportions that in 1878 both withdrew fromthe active management of the Safety SteamPower Company to give all their time to the development of their boiler business. This was con-tinued as a firm up to 1881, when it was formedInto a stock company. At that time Mr. Wilcoxdropped out of active business life, but continuedmaking experiments on compound, t
. Electric railway gazette . Power Company, building smallengines with the safety boilers. This was con-tinued for a number of years, during which themanufacture of the boiler based on Mr. Wilcoxsinvention was begun, and it gradually assumedsuch proportions that in 1878 both withdrew fromthe active management of the Safety SteamPower Company to give all their time to the development of their boiler business. This was con-tinued as a firm up to 1881, when it was formedInto a stock company. At that time Mr. Wilcoxdropped out of active business life, but continuedmaking experiments on compound, triple andquadruple expansion engines at high pressure inconnection with marine boilers. While Mr. Bab-cock remained at the head of the business andwas active for a number of years. Mr. Babcock was of a quick, decisive disposition,able to bring to bear on any subject all the knowl-edge he possessed in relation to that subject. Hecould readily and rapidly take up a new subject,and master it thoroughly in all its details. When. ■5TEPHEN ■WILCOX he was 58 years old he took up the study ofFrench and acquired the language suflSciently forall practical purposes, for reading, writing andconversing, showing that his mental ability wasstrong at that time. He was like a mechanicwith a modern set of tools, every one sharp andready at hand for use. Mr. on the other hand, was of a retiringdisposition, well grounded and thoroughlyequipped for reasoning out all mechanical prob-lems, with a well balanced mind, and singularlyadapted to all kinds of mechanical experimentingand able to size up the results and reduce them topractice; though much slower in argument untilhe had thought a problem out, when he had oncemastered it his arguments were clear, to the pointand very convincing. Mr. Baboock was a past president of the Ameri-can Society of Mechanical Engineers, and theywere both among the earliest members of the so-ciety, of which both were life members. was of a literary
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