What general year did a company make a reliable, practical

I assume that there was a ford or chevy of the boiler business. The builder must have had a economical boiler which was produced in quantity. Steam being new, or relatively so, the boiler would need to be cheap enough to allow businesses to experiment on steamboats, railroad locomotives, and factory drive shafts. Anybody know thename of the producer and when production got underway?
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