Gravimetric Coal Feeder, Landmark
Ralph Hardgrove, a Babcock & Wilcox retiree who joined Stock Equipment Company in 1961 (at 70 years of age), led the feeder's development into general industry acceptance by the mid-1960s, when most large coal-fired boilers included gravimetric feed systems in their design. The first Stock gravimetric feeder operated from 1957 to 1992, to be ...
