A noiseless right-angle drive built by the Almond Company based on patents from 1881 and 1884. It changes the direction of the motion by 90 degrees without the use of gears. The transmission is intended to be mounted on a ceiling so that it does not take up floor space. Thomas R. Almond (1855-1906) started …
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Steam pressure gauge labeled "Ashton/ Boston, U.S.A./ Lane Bourdon". Scale 0-250.
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A circular boiler door frame labeled “Bigelow Two Pass Boiler” and two half-circle doors each with a “TBCo.” monogram.
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This boiler feed pump forced water into the boiler at Shady Lea Mill, Lafayette, RI.
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This 1918 Steam Macadam Roller originally belonged to the State of Rhode Island. In the mid-1940s the state auctioned the roller, and E. Searles Ball of Block Island won the auction. He used it to repair the damage to the road to one of his family’s houses from the 1938 hurricane. It was used again …
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A Bundy return trap made by Nashua Machine Co. Marked "Littlefield's patents" and "No. 10".
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Steam pressure gauge made for Babcock & Wilcox Co. labeled "Crosby/ Boston, U.S.A./ AA". Scale 0-400.
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Steam pressure gauge made for International Eng. Works, Inc. labeled "Crosby/ Boston, U.S.A./ AA". Scale 0-250.
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A duplex boiler feed pump made by The Deane Steam Pump Co. of Holyoke, Massachusetts.
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This governor was built by the Gardner Governor Co. of Quincy, Illinois.
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A circular boiler door and frame labeled “Edward Kendall & Sons/ Charles River Iron Works/ Cambridgeport Mass.”
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A duplex boiler feed pump made by the Knowles Steam Pump Works.
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This Lombard Governor controlled the speed of the hydraulic turbine of the Arctic Mill on the south branch of the Pawtuxet. This one is a gift of Warren Galkin who replaced it with a modern cross flow turbine driving an alternator which pumps electricity into the grid.
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A simplex boiler feed pump made by the Mason Regulator Co. of Boston, marked "Patented June 26, [18]94" and "Size 4."
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This Sargent governor was built for a Rice & Sargent engine by the Providence Engineering Works, Providence, RI.
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Cut-away teaching model of an unusual steam pump.
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A duplex boiler feed pump made by the Warren Steam Pump Co. of Warren, Massachusetts.
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A duplex boiler feed pump made by Worthington Pump Works of Harrison, New Jersey.
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A duplex boiler feed pump made by Worthington Pump Works of Harrison, New Jersey.
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