. Electric railway gazette . known by their appended sketches are summarized from theIron Age: Mr. Wilcox was born in Westerly, , to which town Mr. Babcock removed when aboy from New York, and there they grow up to-gether and formed that close friendship whichcontinued through life. While a young man became identified with the developmentof the steam engine, and his invention of a prac-tical caloric engine really antedated that ofEricsson, both submitting their engines to theLight House Board, by whom they were to beused In operating a fog hjrn, about the sametime. For
. Electric railway gazette . known by their appended sketches are summarized from theIron Age: Mr. Wilcox was born in Westerly, , to which town Mr. Babcock removed when aboy from New York, and there they grow up to-gether and formed that close friendship whichcontinued through life. While a young man became identified with the developmentof the steam engine, and his invention of a prac-tical caloric engine really antedated that ofEricsson, both submitting their engines to theLight House Board, by whom they were to beused In operating a fog hjrn, about the sametime. For several years Mr. Wilcox studied ener-getically the caloric, gas, and oil engines. As aresult he became convinced that these methods ofgenerating power were not practicable or economi-cal except for small units, and that neither couldhope to compete with the steam engine on eventerms. Mr. Babcocks early experience in business wasin connection with woolen mills; he next starteda newspaper at Westerly, which is now published,. though under a different name. He was thefirst inventor of the polychromatic press for print-ing several colors at one impression, and uponthis press as a foundation all the present machinesfor printing in colors are built up. The firstprinters bronzing machine was also the result ofhis ingenuity. He next entered the office ofThomas D. Stetson of New York, who had a largepractice as a patent lawyer. Afterward he wasconnected with the Mystic Iron Company and theHope Iron Works of Providence as draftsman. Itwas while at the latter place that he invented thesystem of cut-off engine afterward known as theBabcock & Wilcox engine, the two men joining inbusiness relations then for the first time. Thisengine was successful as long as the Corlisspatents were in force, but as soon as they becamepublic property competition reduced the price ofengines, and as the Babcock & Wilcox enginewas expensive to build the business was was in the year 1800 or 1807. P
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