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- Engine Room at Manomet Textile Mill, New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1912. - As a center for American textile manufacture, New Bedford, Massachusetts, was driven by steam. Factories housed huge steam engines that powered generators to create the electricity needed to run mill machinery. This engine room powered Manomet Textile Mill, just one of the nearly 70 textile mills operating in New Bedford around the turn of the 20th century.
- February 01, 1912
- Collections - Artifact
Engine Room at Manomet Textile Mill, New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1912.
As a center for American textile manufacture, New Bedford, Massachusetts, was driven by steam. Factories housed huge steam engines that powered generators to create the electricity needed to run mill machinery. This engine room powered Manomet Textile Mill, just one of the nearly 70 textile mills operating in New Bedford around the turn of the 20th century.
- C. & G. Cooper Steam Engine at Manomet Textile Mill, New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1912 - As a center for American textile manufacture, New Bedford, Massachusetts, was driven by steam. Factories housed huge steam engines that powered generators to create the electricity needed to run mill machinery. This engine room powered Manomet Textile Mill, just one of the nearly 70 textile mills operating in New Bedford around the turn of the 20th century.
- February 01, 1912
- Collections - Artifact
C. & G. Cooper Steam Engine at Manomet Textile Mill, New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1912
As a center for American textile manufacture, New Bedford, Massachusetts, was driven by steam. Factories housed huge steam engines that powered generators to create the electricity needed to run mill machinery. This engine room powered Manomet Textile Mill, just one of the nearly 70 textile mills operating in New Bedford around the turn of the 20th century.
- Compound Engine at Manomet Textile Mill, New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1912 - As a center for American textile manufacture, New Bedford, Massachusetts, was driven by steam. Factories housed huge steam engines that powered generators to create the electricity needed to run mill machinery. This engine room powered Manomet Textile Mill, just one of the nearly 70 textile mills operating in New Bedford around the turn of the 20th century.
- February 01, 1912
- Collections - Artifact
Compound Engine at Manomet Textile Mill, New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1912
As a center for American textile manufacture, New Bedford, Massachusetts, was driven by steam. Factories housed huge steam engines that powered generators to create the electricity needed to run mill machinery. This engine room powered Manomet Textile Mill, just one of the nearly 70 textile mills operating in New Bedford around the turn of the 20th century.
- Wright's Patent Variable Cut-off Steam Engine, circa 1865 -
- circa 1865
- Collections - Artifact
Wright's Patent Variable Cut-off Steam Engine, circa 1865
- Dickson Beam Engine, 1811 -
- 1811
- Collections - Artifact
Dickson Beam Engine, 1811
- Greene Steam Engine, circa 1880 - Noble Greene designed this engine with an automatic cut-off valve that improved speed control. Greene invented this mechanism in 1855, but could not sell it because of a patent battle with George Corliss. The courts sided with Corliss and protected his valve mechanism claims preventing Greene from manufacturing his engine design until Corliss' patent expired in 1870.
- circa 1880
- Collections - Artifact
Greene Steam Engine, circa 1880
Noble Greene designed this engine with an automatic cut-off valve that improved speed control. Greene invented this mechanism in 1855, but could not sell it because of a patent battle with George Corliss. The courts sided with Corliss and protected his valve mechanism claims preventing Greene from manufacturing his engine design until Corliss' patent expired in 1870.
- Saltaire Textile Mill, Bradford, England, circa 1865 -
- circa 1865
- Collections - Artifact
Saltaire Textile Mill, Bradford, England, circa 1865
- C. & G. Cooper Steam Engine at Manomet Textile Mill, New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1912 - As a center for American textile manufacture, New Bedford, Massachusetts, was driven by steam. Factories housed huge steam engines that powered generators to create the electricity needed to run mill machinery. This engine room powered Manomet Textile Mill, just one of the nearly 70 textile mills operating in New Bedford around the turn of the 20th century.
- February 01, 1912
- Collections - Artifact
C. & G. Cooper Steam Engine at Manomet Textile Mill, New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1912
As a center for American textile manufacture, New Bedford, Massachusetts, was driven by steam. Factories housed huge steam engines that powered generators to create the electricity needed to run mill machinery. This engine room powered Manomet Textile Mill, just one of the nearly 70 textile mills operating in New Bedford around the turn of the 20th century.