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This is a list of roundabouts in the state of Massachusetts in the United States.Intersections that are called traffic circles or roundabouts in the rest of the US are referred to as "rotaries" in Massachusetts, as well as other parts of New England including parts of Connecticut, [1] New Hampshire, [2] Maine [3] Rhode Island, & Vermont.
The Connecticut River was first bridged at Springfield in 1805, by an open wooden bridge said to have been "mongrel in style." [2] It collapsed in 1814 and was replaced by a covered wooden Burr arch-truss bridge built by Isaac Damon of Northampton, Massachusetts. Partly rebuilt after a spring freshet in 1818, Damon's bridge survived into the ...
Knox joined with his former employer, Elihu H. Cutler of the Elektron Company to form the Knox Automobile Company in Springfield Massachusetts in 1900. [2] The Waltham Watch Company factory was purchased and Knox built 15 cars in their first year. [3] The Knox Model A was a three-wheel runabout with a 5-hp one-cylinder air-cooled engine.
As of 2011, the final 350 feet (110 m) of the river, including its mouth, is confined in a pipe underneath Interstate 91, railroad tracks and a car dealership. [1] Many Springfield residents have bemoaned the loss of the Mill River as a recreational area, and hope to gain greater access to both it and the Connecticut River in upcoming years.
A rotary union is a union that allows for rotation of the united parts. It is thus a device that provides a seal between a stationary supply passage (such as pipe or tubing) and a rotating part (such as a drum, cylinder, or spindle ) to permit the flow of a fluid into and/or out of the rotating part.
Springfield was originally platted in 1877 with the name of "Burns" when the Chicago and North Western Railway extended a line to the settlement. [7] It was renamed in 1881 after either Springfield, Massachusetts. [8] or a nearby spring. [9] [10] In 1890 Adolph Casimir Ochs established the Ochs Brick and Tile Company in Springfield and Heron Lake.
A Corliss steam engine (or Corliss engine) is a steam engine, fitted with rotary valves and with variable valve timing patented in 1849, invented by and named after the US engineer George Henry Corliss of Providence, Rhode Island. Corliss assumed the original invention from Frederick Ellsworth Sickels (1819- 1895), who held the patent (1829) in ...
The Connecticut River Walk is partially constructed park and bikeway in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States, along the banks of New England's largest river, the Connecticut River. Currently, Springfield's section of this park is 3.7 miles (6 km) long, running from Chicopee, Massachusetts to the South End Bridge in Springfield, Massachusetts.