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During WW II, the Department of the Navy commissioned Silver to design and build landing barges for the South Pacific Theater of Operations. The subsections of twenty-four ships were prefabricated in the Denver, shipped to California via railroad, and assembled for launching.

Silver Engineering Works was started in 1933 by Harold Silver and Fred Roberts. With a total capital of $5,000, they took over the old Box Iron Works and invented the Ogden Beet Piler, 1st commercially usable sugar diffuser, and the Silver Model 63 continuous centrifugal.