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- Steam Engine Used on Popcorn Wagon, 1910-1920 - Charles Cretors helped popularize a classic American snack when he operated a popcorn wagon at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Wagons built by C. Cretors & Company used small steam engines to run their popcorn poppers and peanut roasters. Steam engines could be used anywhere, unlike electric motors which required connections to generators or outside power lines.
- 1910-1920
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Steam Engine Used on Popcorn Wagon, 1910-1920
Charles Cretors helped popularize a classic American snack when he operated a popcorn wagon at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Wagons built by C. Cretors & Company used small steam engines to run their popcorn poppers and peanut roasters. Steam engines could be used anywhere, unlike electric motors which required connections to generators or outside power lines.
- Huber Portable Steam Engine, 1882 -
- 1882
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Huber Portable Steam Engine, 1882
- Portable Steam Engine, circa 1857 - Portable agricultural steam engines, such as this very early example, introduced American farmers to mechanical power. These engines were pulled out to the field by horses, and then used to power threshers and separators for the grain harvest. This 10-horsepower Owens, Lane & Dyer engine consists of a side-crank engine mounted on the side of a locomotive-type boiler.
- circa 1857
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Portable Steam Engine, circa 1857
Portable agricultural steam engines, such as this very early example, introduced American farmers to mechanical power. These engines were pulled out to the field by horses, and then used to power threshers and separators for the grain harvest. This 10-horsepower Owens, Lane & Dyer engine consists of a side-crank engine mounted on the side of a locomotive-type boiler.
- Port Huron Steam Traction Engine, "Longfellow," 1916 - The late 19th to early 20th centuries saw huge steam engines like this used for threshing grain. They could move over the roads under their own power. Individual farmers generally did not own such machines. Rather, men made a business of moving from farm to farm, threshing grain during harvest time. Joseph Freund of Westphalia, Michigan, bought this machine in 1917 and used it to power a Port Huron "Rusher" thresher-separator in Clinton and Ionia Counties, Michigan.
- December 22, 1916
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Port Huron Steam Traction Engine, "Longfellow," 1916
The late 19th to early 20th centuries saw huge steam engines like this used for threshing grain. They could move over the roads under their own power. Individual farmers generally did not own such machines. Rather, men made a business of moving from farm to farm, threshing grain during harvest time. Joseph Freund of Westphalia, Michigan, bought this machine in 1917 and used it to power a Port Huron "Rusher" thresher-separator in Clinton and Ionia Counties, Michigan.
- The Improved Greene Engine, circa 1871 -
- circa 1871
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The Improved Greene Engine, circa 1871
- Model of a Compound Vertical Engine -
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Model of a Compound Vertical Engine
- Spherical Steam Engine, circa 1908 -
- circa 1908
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Spherical Steam Engine, circa 1908
- Model Steam Engine, circa 1955 -
- circa 1955
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Model Steam Engine, circa 1955
- Steam Engine Indicator -
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Steam Engine Indicator
- C.H. Brown Engine Co. Steam Gauge Display Board, circa 1900 -
- circa 1900
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C.H. Brown Engine Co. Steam Gauge Display Board, circa 1900