Bob and Nancy Merriam's first gasoline marine engine. → Acadia Marine Engine
Bob and Nancy Merriam's first gasoline marine engine. → All Engines
Bob and Nancy Merriam's first gasoline marine engine. → Acme Automatic Safety Engine
Automatic, Packaged Engine. → American Ball Steam Engine, 1905
This engine was built by the American Engine Company, also known as the American Ball Company, in Bound Brook, NJ in 1905. → Armington & Sims Steam Engine, 1883
This High Speed engine was built by the Armington & Sims Engine Company, Eagle Street, Providence, RI. It was delivered to the Hartford Electric Light Company in 1883. It was connected to a Thomson-Houston Electric Company generator that would power 28 lights. It has a 9.5″ bore and a 10″ stroke and produces 50 Horsepower … Continue reading "Armington & Sims Steam Engine, 1883" → Armington & Sims Steam Engine, 1888
This high speed engine was built by the Armington & Sims Engine Company, Eagle Street, Providence, RI. It was first delivered to the Narragansett Pier Electric Light Company. It was later used to power the Sea View Railroad that ran from East Greenwich to Narragansett. It has a 12″ bore and a 12″ stroke and … Continue reading "Armington & Sims Steam Engine, 1888" → Baxter Steam Engine and Boiler, c. 1868
This single cylinder engine has the cylinder located in the top of a three pass vertical fire tube boiler to minimize heat loss. It has a 7″ bore, an 8″ stroke and produces 10 HP. It has three eccentrics on the crankshaft for the slide valve, the feed pump, and an optional cut-off control. It … Continue reading "Baxter Steam Engine and Boiler, c. 1868" → Clark & Howard Steam Engine, c. 1885
“The Safe Engine” 15 H.P. steam engine with riding cut-off valve. → Compound Launch Steam Engine
Possible Herreshoff engine. → Corliss Steam Engine, 1892
This engine was designed by George Henry Corliss and built by his Corliss Steam Engine Company. The unique Corliss valve gear made this engine more efficient than others and the design was widely copied. We believe this is the only engine built by the Corliss Steam Engine Company that is running under steam today. → De La Vergne Oil Engine
This 1896 De La Vergne oil engine is the same as that used to power the Marconi transmitters on Cape Cod Massachusetts in 1902. It is similar to a Diesel but depends on the heat of a large combustion chamber to ignite the air/fuel mixture, not high compression. It has fuel injection that sprays oil … Continue reading "De La Vergne Oil Engine" → Delameter Iron Works Steam Engine, c. 1870
A 20 H.P. horizontal steam engine made by the Delameter Iron Works of New York, New York. → Ellis Stationary Gas Engine
Fairbanks-Morse Vertical Type T Special Electric
This Fairbanks-Morse & Company Type T engine, Serial Number 36684, was manufactured in 1904 in Chicago, Illinois. →
Fitchburg Steam Engine, 1905
This girder frame mill engine was built by the Fitchburg Steam Engine Company in Fitchburg, MA. → Granger Steam Engine, c. 1870
This V engine was built about 1870 by the Granger Foundry and Machine Company in Providence, RI. It was used to power cloth printing machines. Because the engine has cylinders offset by 90 degrees, it starts with the crankshaft in any position. → Improved Greene Engine, 1897
The Improved Greene Engine Automatic Cut-Off engine was designed by Noble Tuckerman Greene and built by the Providence Steam Engine Company, 373 South Main St., Providence, RI. This 17″ X 36″ 150 Horse Power engine was installed in the Rhode Island Cardboard Company, 163 Exchange St, Pawtucket, RI in 1897. It was used to manufacture … Continue reading "Improved Greene Engine, 1897" → Harris Steam Engine Company, 1895
This engine was designed and built by the William A. Harris Steam Engine Company, on corner of Park and Promenade Streets, Providence, RI. William A. Harris was the plant superintendent at the Corliss Steam Engine Company until 1869, when the Corliss patent ran out. He then started his own company using the Corliss valve design. … Continue reading "Harris Steam Engine Company, 1895" → Harris Steam Engine, 1911
This William A. Harris engine has a 16″ bore and 30″ stroke. It has a Tangye bed and Brown valve gear. This engine was first installed in a shoe factory in Brockton, Massachusetts in 1911. During the depression of the 1930s it was sold to the National Laundry Company, 1208 Dorchester Avenue, Dorchester, Massachusetts. The … Continue reading "Harris Steam Engine, 1911" → Herreshoff(?) Small Vertical Steam Engine
2″ x 3″, Vertical, Piston Valve → Herreshoff Triple Expansion Steam Engine, 1904
This triple expansion engine was built by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company in Bristol, RI in 1904 as internal job number 3207B. It has three cylinders with bores of 12 1/2″, 18″, 25 and a 13 1/2″ stroke. It produces 385 HP at 300 RPM on superheated steam. It exhibits many ingenious techniques to reduce weight … Continue reading "Herreshoff Triple Expansion Steam Engine, 1904" → Corliss Spyder Water Pumping Engine
The History of the Hope Distribution Reservoir and Hope Pumping Station Providence, Rhode Island Whalen Ingham, Providence Water Supply Board The Hope Distribution Reservoir, placed in service in 1875, was originally intended to supplement the Sockanosset Reservoir and to provide a supply of water near the center of the city which could be called upon if … Continue reading "Corliss Spyder Water Pumping Engine" →
Improved Ericsson Hot-Air Pumping Engine
Isbell-Porter 5 HP Steam Engine
A 5 HP horizontal side crank steam engine built by the Isbell-Porter Co. of New York about 1890. → Isbell-Porter Steam Engine
A horizontal side crank steam engine built by the Isbell-Porter Co. of New York. → Lathe Bed Steam Engine
Murphy Two Cylinder Steam Engine
Speed governor located within the flywheel. Recommends “Gargoyle Crank Case Oil.” → Nasmyth Vertical Steam Engine
New Hampshire Mill Engine
New York Safety Horizontal Steam Engine, c. 1895
This 25 HP horizontal engine was built by Nichols and Langworthy Machine Company in Hope Valley, RI in 1895. It is similar to the design of the Armington & Sims engine. It has a 8″ bore and a 9″ stroke and produces 25 HP. The engine was originally installed the cellar of Lippitt Hall at … Continue reading "New York Safety Horizontal Steam Engine, c. 1895" → New York Safety Vertical bottle engine 15 HP, c. 1870
Nichols and Langworthy manufactured engines in Hope Valley, RI and sold them under the New York Safety Steam Power name. The New York Safety Steam Power engine represents a marked advance in size reduction, one piece ruggedness, and simplicity of manufacture. It is a vertical, single cylinder engine producing 15 horsepower at 150 RPM on … Continue reading "New York Safety Vertical bottle engine 15 HP, c. 1870" → New York Safety Vertical bottle engine, 5 HP
Nichols and Langworthy manufactured engines in Hope Valley, RI and sold them under the New York Safety Steam Power name. They produced engines in many sizes of which we have three. This engine is commonly referred to as a “bottle” engine because of its bottle shape from the side. These engines were fitted with reversing … Continue reading "New York Safety Vertical bottle engine, 5 HP" → Orr and Sembauer Vertical Steam Engine
Palmer YT Marine Engine
Sears, Roebuck Kenwood Vertical Steam Engine
This Kenwood engine was sold through the Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalog. It was used as a teaching engine in a Fall River, MA trade school. The engine was originally sold as a package with an attached boiler. You can find it in the catalog page below as catalog number 32K4808 it sold for $116.75. → Shipman “Boston Model” Steam Engine and Boiler
Compact steam engine and boiler. Piston valve. → Shipman Steam Engine, Green
Compact steam engine. Piston valve. → Shipman Steam Engine, Black
Single cylinder. → Shipman “Boston Model” Steam Engine and Boiler (smaller)
Compact steam engine and boiler. → Small Auto Steam Engine
SS Nobska Steam Engine
The 210-foot SS Nobska and its steam engine were built by Bath Iron Works, Ltd. in Bath, Maine and delivered on 9-Apr-1925 for the Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority. It was named after Nobska Point on Cape Cod, MA, USA. The Nobska was renamed Nantucket in 1928, and back to Nobska in 1956. Its sister ship the Islander (renamed Martha's Vineyard in 1928) was delivered on 17-Aug-1923. →
Stanley Steamer Engine
Sturtevant Steam Engine
A 25 H.P. coal stoker engine built by the B. F. Sturtevant Company of Boston about 1910. It was installed in the Brown & Sharpe plant in Providence, Rhode Island. → Swedish Power Plant Model
Terry Steam Turbine Engine
This turbine was manufactured at Terry Steam Turbine, Hartford, Connecticut, in 1906. It was originally purchased by Meriden Gas Works in Meriden, CT to drive a No. 7 Sturtevant blower. The turbine wheel is helical, or tangential flow type, which is commonly described as the “Terry Solid Wheel”. → Vanderbilt Cup Marine Engine
Vertical Steam Engine, Brown
Waterman Marine Engine
Small gasoline marine engine. Copper water jacket around cylinder. Black paint. → Watertown Steam Engine
Whitin Model B Victory Engine, c. 1942
During WWII Whitin Machine Works of Whitinsville, Massachusetts was commissioned by the U. S. Government to build auxiliary steam engines for the Liberty Ship program. These were used to power generators and forced draft blowers. By the end of the war Whitin had produced about 11,000 of these engines. They were produced 100% “in house.” … Continue reading "Whitin Model B Victory Engine, c. 1942" →