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The first steam engine produced by the J.I. Case Company in 1869, "Old Number One," produced eight horsepower and was used primarily to run threshing machines and sawmills. Its boiler produced 80 ...
In the TIMES of Oct. 17 is a paragraph giving an account of the explosion at Collinsville, Ind., of a small portable steam engine, recently put up, causing the instant death of three persons, ...
These brothers submitted their first patent in 1874, and on April 15, 1875, the patent was approved for the Taylor portable steam engine. The Taylor brothers had a manufacturing plant located at ...
Some of the other items Taylor Manufacturing Co. produced in Chambersburg were the clipper vertical steam engine, climax portable engine on skids, vertical tubular boilers, circular saw mill, iron ...
Though advanced steam technology has impacted many industries, the one that it affected the most was railways. Several modern locomotives that ran on steam engines kept getting better with time ...
One of the first steam engines — dubbed the Newcomen engine after its creator Thomas Newcomen — was also formidable at 9.5 meters long and tall.
Some of the other items Taylor Manufacturing Co. produced in Chambersburg were the clipper vertical steam engine, climax portable engine on skids, vertical tubular boilers, circular saw mill, iron ...
Taylor Manufacturing Co., operational in Chambersburg in the late 1800s, has patents on the portable steam engine and an ice machine/ice cream maker.