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		Babcock & Wilcox: About B&W: History ^Votes:0 About B&W Core Values Profile > History Locations News Contact Us 125-year History Book (PDF, 12.8 MB) History In 1856, 26-year old Stephen Wilcox of Rhode Island, USA, patented a water tube boiler that increased heating surfaces, allowed better water circulation, and, most noteworthy, was inherently safe. Eleven years later, he and friend George Babcock established a partnership -- Babcock, Wilcox and Company -- to manufacture and market these water tube steam boilers. Their ingenuity cleared the way for the modern era of large high-pressure and high-temperature steam power plants and established a precedent for their colleagues and successors to be inventive and customer-oriented. The end of the Civil War ushered in a new demand for steam power for transportation and manufacturing in Read More Go to Site


		Harlem 1900-1940: Schomburg Exhibit C.J. Walker ^Votes:0 Home Timeline Exhibition For Teachers Resources Copyright Info Madame C.J. Walker (Sarah Breedlove) (1867-1919) beauty culturist, entrepreneur, philanthropist Courtesy of the Walker Company Madame C.J. Walker was born in Delta, Louisiana, to Owen and Minerva Breedlove, who were former slaves. At the age of six years, Sarah Breedlove was orphaned. She married at the age of 14 to C.J. Walker and bore a daughter, A'Lelia. A laundress until 1905, Sarah Breedlove Walker had a dream, which was to make a preparation that would, in her words, "improve" the texture of African women's hair. Finally, she set out with $1.25 and plenty of determination to become America's first self-made woman millionaire. Madame Walker developed a line of cosmetics and hair-care products especially for African-America Read More Go to Site

		How George Westinghouse changed the world ^Votes:0 How George Westinghouse changed the world by Frank Wicks The greatest engineer of his day, George Westinghouse modernized the railroad industry and established the electric power system. George Westinghouse, Jr., born 150 years ago on Oct. 6, 1846, became one of the greatest engineers, industrialists, and inventors of his time. He did more than anyone else in his time to modernize the railroad and electric power industries. Westinghouse received 360 patents, and started 60 companies that had a total of 50,000 employees. At his peak, he was the largest private employer in industrial history. As a youth he invented and manufactured an improved car replacer and a compressed-air braking system, later inventing a reverse-acting fail-safe system that remains standard today. He also invented and Read More Go to Site

		How we made the firstflight ^Votes:0 How We Made The First Flight - by Orville Wright (With Frames for Netscape 2.0 users) How We Made The First Flight - by Orville Wright (Without Frames) This is a HTML version of a non-copyright work obtained from The Aviation Education Clearinghouse of the Federal Aviation Administration . The images used in these pages are not part of the original document, but were obtained separately from the National Archives. An un-edited version of this document is available in Microsoft Word format HERE . Comments/suggestions to air-info@brooklyn.cuny.edu Read More Go to Site

		James Watt by Andrew Carnegie ^Votes:0 James Watt by Andrew Carnegie New York: Doubleday, Page & Company. May, 1905. Table of Contents Chapter 1: Childhood and Youth Chapter 2: Glasgow To London-Return to Glasgow Chapter 3: Captured By Steam Chapter 4: Partnership with Roebuck Chapter 5: Boulton Partnership Chapter 6: Removal to Birmingham Chapter 7: Second Patent Chapter 8: The Record of the Steam Engine Chapter 9: Watt in Old Age Chapter 10: Watt, The Inventor and Discoverer Chapter 11: Watt, The Man \| Steam Engine Library \| Electronic text conversion by Siddarth Sharma and Rahul Singh Baswan 10 December 1996 Read More Go to Site

		Orville Wright - How we made the first flight ^Votes:0 Orville Wright - How we made the first flight Read More Go to Site

		xlhome3 ^Votes:0 Granville T. Woods "The Black Edison" Electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, inventor. Born in Columbus, Ohio, he mastered the trades of machinist and blacksmith, and after working as a railroad fireman and engineer, Woods took college courses in electrical and rnechanical engineering from 1876 to 1878. He served as engineer on the British steamer Ironsides in 1878, and later settled in Cincinnati, Ohio. His first patent was for a steam boiler furnace in 1884. He patented a telephone transmitter in 1885, which was bought by Bell Telephone, and Woods then founded the Woods Electric Company in New York City, which manufactured and sold telephone, telegraph, and electrical Instruments. His most important invention was the induction telegraph system in 1887, a method of informing Read More Go to Site

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