New England Wireless & Steam Museum
A Non-Profit • Public • Educational • Engineering Museum
Armington & Sims produced high-speed piston valve steam engines. The Rites governor that was used on these engines responded to the changing speed of the engine as well as the rate of change in the speed. This caused to engine to have very accurate speed control, even with large load changes. Thomas Edison used these engines for his Pearl Street power plant because the excellent speed control would not let the lights flicker when the load changed. → 
Baxter Steam Engines were designed by William Baxter. Many were built under contract by the Colt Fire Arms factory in Hartford CT. → 
This is the largest engine that the Corliss Steam Engine Company built. It was installed in the Machinery Hall of the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876. The engine had a 44 inch bore, 10 foot stroke, was more than 45 feet tall, had a fifty-six ton, thirty foot diameter, twenty-four inch face flywheel, and produced 1,400 horsepower at 36 RPM. → 
Manufacturers of Steam Engines with Corliss's Patented Improvements. → 
Fitchburg Steam Engine Co. produced piston valve engines in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. → 
The company was originally known as the Cove Foundry & Machine Company with William Smith Granger as treasurer (1866). The company was renamed and incorporated as the Granger Foundry & Machine Company on May 31, 1877. → 
The images below show the engine in the Rhode Island Cardboard Company building. The engine was remarkably intact, but more than a little rusty from sitting in a leaky building for more than 70 years. The connecting rod end and part of the crankshaft disk A view from the crankshaft end.You can see the multitude … Continue reading "Improved Greene Engine: Before Restoration" → 
Images of the Improved Greene engine after restoration. → 
A large part of the machinery and tools at the company were invented and made especially for manufacturing stationary engines from 20 to 2,000 horse-power. The establishment is capable of turning out half a million dollars' worth of merchandise annually, which is shipped to all parts of the United States, and to Cuba, Mexico and Spain. → 
The Herreshoff Manufacturing Company was formed in Bristol, RI in 1878 by John Brown Herreshoff and Nathanael Green Herreshoff. → 
After the Lookout boiler was donated to the NEWSM, the RI National Guard moved the boiler to the museum. → 
Quite a few people experimented with forms of television in the early 1900s. In the "camera" for these TVs a very bright light went through holes in a spinning disk, reflected off an object, and went into a selenium cell that converted the light to an electrical signal. → 
New York Safety Steam Power Company was incorporated in 1869 and had a sales office at 30 Cortlandt St. in New York City. Its steam engines
were manufactured by Nichols and Langworthy in Hope Valley, RI. → 
373 (521) South Main Street, Providence, Rhode Island. Manufacturers of Rice & Sargent and Improved Greene Steam Engines. The company was founded on March 28, 1899 by merging the Providence Steam Engine Company and the Rice and Sargent Company. → 
Sole Builders of the Improved Greene Engine. Stationary and Marine Boilers, Sheet-iron Work, Etc., Rathbone Gardner, President; Wm. B. Waterman, Treasurer; T. W. Phillips, Secretary and Gen'l Manager; Nos. 373 to 379 South Main Street, Providence, Rhode Island. → 
The restoration of what is likely to be the only engine designed and built by George H. Corliss that is running under steam today. → 
The Thursday crew recently picked this engine as a project, and had the engine running at a November 2000 open house. → 
Richard Henry Rice and John Warren Sargent formed the Rice & Sargent Engine Company in 1895. Their engines were originally built by the Builder's Iron Foundry in Providence, RI. Later engines were built by the Providence Engineering Works. → 
"These engines are made from 1 to 8 horse power, and are simple, efficient and economical. They are desirable above all other small power engines, because you can be your own engineer and fireman; they are economical in the use of fuel, automatic in their water and fuel supply, and consume only the amount of fuel required for the power taken." → 
The 50th Yankee Steam Up was held on Saturday, October 4, 2014. → 
The 52st Yankee Steam Up was held on Saturday, October 1, 2016. It was a rainy day, but there was a good crowd. The steam building was popular because it was nice and warm. → 
"Sole manufacturers of the Sturtevant Blowers. Exhaust fans, steam hot blast apparatus, steam engines, portable forges, etc." →