Caption on photo: "Oliver Evans designed and constructed the first successful high pressure steam engine in America. Equipped with strong boilers of riveted iron, his engines were a great improvement over the atmospheric pressure engines, and by...
Chapin Mine Cornish pumping engine, Iron Mountain, Upper Michigan. Cornish Pumping engine located at surface with additional engines at various levels in the 1659 foot shaft
Chapin Mine Cornish pumping engine, Iron Mountain, Upper Michigan. Cornish Pumping engine located at surface with additional engines at various levels in the 1659 foot shaft
Late 18th century wooden fire engine. Written caption: "Source: Insurance Co. of North America. The Hope Hand Pumper - Horse drawn. Location: At the Cincinnati Service Office (In use in the Pennsylvania Dutch Country 1776?)"
Illustration, description and prices for garden or fire engine. From Bignall Manufacturing Company, Medina, New York, The Bignall Manufacturing Co.'s descriptive catalogue, p. 45.
