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NuTone became a publicly traded company in 1955. Other NuTone-created products included the residential kitchen ventilator hood and built-in kitchen countertop appliances. In 1967, when the Corbetts sold their interest in the company to the Scovill Manufacturing Company, [2] NuTone was the largest American producer of home electrical products.
Weeden Manufacturing was a toy company best known for producing Model steam engines and electric motors. [1] They started making toy steam engines in October 1884 to sell via Magazine, and went on to make 100 different styles. [2] [3] Weeden made its own tooling for all the engines they made. From 1890 to 1912 Weeden made a steam powered toy train.
A live steam festival (often called a "Steam Fair" in the UK and a live steam "meet" in the US) is a gathering of people interested in steam engine technology. Locomotives, trains, traction engines , steam wagons , steam rollers , showman's engines and tractors , steam boats and cars , and stationary steam engines may be on display, both full ...
Soo Line 353 is a restored 0-6-0 type steam locomotive of the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railway (“Soo Line”) B-4 class. It is now owned & operated by WMSTR (Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion) every Labor Day weekend.
Known as the Mamod Steam Railway, this offering became the first affordable, mass-produced live steam set in the United Kingdom, experiencing successful sales. Mamod swiftly expanded the range by introducing additional locomotives, namely the SL-2 and SL-3 , available in both ready-to-run and kit-form versions, catering to O (32 mm) and 1 (45 ...
The company continued to show them in their catalogues as late as 1912. About 10,000 White steam-powered cars were built, more than the better known Stanley. In 2019 Mitch Gross and Chris Rolph drove a 1910 model MM 40 hp White steam car from Beijing to Paris, likely the only time such a feat has been done by a steam car.
Weeden Vertical toy steam engine in the 1912 Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog. In the late 19th century, manufacturers such as German toy company Bing introduced the two main types of model/toy steam engines, namely stationary engines with accessories that were supposed to mimic a 19th-century factory, [4] and mobile engines such as steam locomotives and boats.
High pressure steam enters, red, and exhausts, yellow. The uniflow type of steam engine uses steam that flows in one direction only in each half of the cylinder. Thermal efficiency is increased by having a temperature gradient along the cylinder. Steam always enters at the hot ends of the cylinder and exhausts through ports at the cooler centre.