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Engine House No. 5 is a former Columbus Fire Department station in the German Village neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. The building was constructed in 1894, designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style by John Flynn.
Period cutaway diagram of a triple-expansion steam engine installation, circa 1918. This particular diagram illustrates possible engine cutoff locations, after the Lusitania disaster and others made it clear that this was an important safety feature. A marine steam engine is a steam engine that is used to power a ship or boat.
Harris-Corliss Steam Engine Example of a late 19th-century 350-hp Corliss-type steam engine. 1895 Atlanta: Georgia United States Located at Randall Brothers, Inc. ASME brochure. 111: 1986 Boulton & Watt Rotative Steam Engine. Oldest surviving operable rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt. 1785 Sydney: New South Wales: Australia
Initial design for the east and west side engine houses in 1896. The East Main Street engine house was designed in 1896, to be identical in interior and exterior design to the original Engine House No. 10 on West Broad Street. [3] Both were locations on the National Road. Construction ran from August 1896 to February 1897.
The company was founded in 1867 by Stephen Wilcox, Jr. and his partner George Herman Babcock with the intention of building safer steam boilers. Stephen Wilcox first avowed that “there must be a better way” to safely generate power, and he and George Babcock responded with the design for the first inherently safe water-tube boiler.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places entries in Columbus, Ohio, United States.The National Register is a federal register for buildings, structures, and sites of historic significance.
The marine engine works of T. F. Secor and Co. was originally established in New York City, at Ninth Street, East River, in 1838.The works was at this time owned by three partners—T. F. Secor, William K. Caulkin [1] and budding transport entrepreneur Charles Morgan, each of whom had one-third ownership of the new firm.
World War I Hendy marine engine. During World War I, the Hendy plant gained its first experience building marine engines by supplying 11 triple expansion steam engines for cargo ships built by Western Pipe & Steel, for the U.S. Shipping Board. [2] [4] Each engine weighed about 137 tons and stood 24½ feet high. Although the first marine engines ...