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Landmarks in mechanical engineering, ASME International History and Heritage

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Includes bibliographical references (page 351) and index

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Landmarks in mechanical engineering

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ASME International History and Heritage

Machines, devices, and systems that have touched our lives, both intimately and for the public good, are often unheralded inventions that we take for granted or never even see. Fortunately, they claim landmark recognition by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, which now makes these engineering marvels accessible to teachers and students, travelers, researchers, and the curious. The 135 historic mechanical engineering landmarks in this book represent the

Pumping. Introduction -- Newcomen Memorial Engine -- Fairmount Waterworks -- Chesapeake & Delaware Canal scoop wheel and steam engines -- Holly system of fire protection and water supply -- Archimedean screw pump -- Chapin mine pumping engine -- Leavitt-Riedler pumping engine. Sidebar. Erasmus D. Leavitt, Jr. -- Chestnut Street pumping engine. Specifications: Chestnut Street pumping engine -- A.B. Wood low-lift screw pump -- Reynolds-Corliss pumping engine -- Worthington horizontal cross-compound pumping engine. Specifications: Pumping engine no.2, York Water Company -- Mechanical power production. Water. Introduction -- Great Falls Raceway and power system -- Lowell Power Canal System and Pawtucket Gatehouse Turbine. Sidebar. James B. Francis, the maker of LowellCont.): Holyoke Water Power System -- Morris Canal Scotch (reaction) Turbine. Sidebar. James Lee and Plane no. 9 West -- Boyden Hydraulic Turbines, Harmony Mill no. 3. Sidebar. Uriah Atherton Boyden -- Steam. Introduction -- Boulton & Watt rotative steam engine. Sidebar. Horsepower -- Hacienda La Esperanza Sugar Mill steam engine -- Harris-Corliss steam engine. Sidebar. George H. Corliss and the Corliss Engine -- Specifications: Harris-Corliss Engine, Randall Brothers -- Internal combustion. Introduction -- Roosa Master diesel fuel-injection pump -- Electrical power production. Water. Introduction -- Vulcan Street Power Plant -- Folsom Powerhouse no. 1 -- Idols Station, Fries Manufactury & Power Company -- Michigan Lake Superior Power Company Hydroelectric PlantCont.): Childs-Irving Hydroelectric Project -- Rocky River Pumped-storage Hydroelectric Plant -- Kaplan Turbine -- Hiwassee Dam Unit 2 Reversible Pump-Turbine. Specifications: Hiwassee Dam Unit 2 Reversible Pump-Turbine -- Steam. Introduction -- Edison "Jumbo" engine-driven dynamo -- Marine-type, triple expansion, engine-driven dynamo -- Pratt Institute Power Plant -- 5,000-kilowatt Curtis Steam Turbine-generator. Specifications: 5,000-kilowatt Curtis Steam Turbine-generator -- Georgetown Steam Plant -- East Wells (Oneida) Street Power Plant -- Edgar Station, Edison Electric Illuminating Company -- State Line Generating Unit no. 1 -- Port Washington Power Plant -- Internal combustion. Introduction -- Neuchâtel gas turbine -- Belle Isle gas turbineCont.): Specifications: Belle Isle gas turbine -- Nuclear. Introduction -- Shippingport Atomic Power Station -- Geothermal. Introduction -- The Geysers unit 1, Pacific Gas & Electric Company -- Power transmission. Introduction -- Kingsbury thrust bearing -- Minerals extraction and refining. Introduction -- Saugus Ironworks -- Cornwall Iron Furnace -- Ringwood Manor Iron Complex -- Drake Oil Well. Sidebar. How oil wells were drilled -- Pioneer Oil Refinery (California Star Oil Works Company) -- Reed Gold Mine Ten-stamp Mill -- Fairbanks Exploration Company Gold Dredge no.8 -- Hanford B Reactor -- First basic-oxygen steelmaking vessel -- "Big Brutus" mine shovel -- Manufacturing facilities and processes. IntroductionCont.): Portsmouth-Kittery Naval Shipbuilding Activity -- Springfield Armory -- Jackson Ferry Shot Tower -- Wilkinson Mill -- American Precision Museum/Robbins & Lawrence -- Armory and Machine Shop -- Westmoreland Malleable Iron Works -- Watkins Woolen Mill -- Creusot steam hammer -- Joshua Hendy Iron Works -- Owens AR bottle machine -- A.O. Smith Automatic Frame Plant -- Corning Ribbon Machine -- Fusion-welded Test Boiler Drum -- Alcoa 50,000-ton Hydraulic Forging Press -- Wyman-Gordon 50,000-ton Hydraulic Forging Press -- First hot isostatic processing vessels -- Food Processing. Introduction -- Graue Mill -- Anderson-Barngrover Continuous Rotary Pressure Sterilizer -- FMC Citrus Juice ExtractorCont.): Sidebar. Whole citrus fruit juice extraction: how it works -- Materials handling and excavation. Introduction -- Samson Mine Reversible Waterwheel and Man-engine -- Buckeye steam traction ditcher -- "Pit-cast" jib crane. Sidebar. The manufacture of pit-cast pipe -- Quincy Mining Company no. 2 mine hoist -- PACECO Container Crane -- Environmental Control. Introduction -- Holly system of district heating -- Stirling water-tube boilers -- Detroit Edison District Heating System, Beacon Street Plant -- Holland Tunnel ventilation system -- Magma Copper Mine air-conditioning system -- Equitable Building heat pump -- Water transportation. Introduction -- SS Great Britain -- TV Emery Rice engine -- Turbinia. Sidebar. The compound steam turbineCont.): Vertical reciprocating steam engines, USS Olympia -- Evinrude outboard motor -- Reciprocating steam engines, USS Texas. Specifications: reciprocating steam engines, USS Texas -- SS Jeremiah O'Brien. Sidebar. EC2 cargo vessels (Liberty Ships) delivered in 1943, by Shipyard -- Sidebar. U.S. Liberty Ship engine builders, number built -- NS Savannah -- Rail transportation. Introduction -- Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Old Main Line -- St. Charles Avenue Streetcar Line -- Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Roundhouse and Shops -- Mount Washington Cog Railway -- Monongahela and Duquesne Inclines. Sidebar. Pittsburgh's inclines -- Ferries & Cliff House Railway. Sidebar. Ferries & Cliff House Railway: how it works -- Manitou & Pikes Peak Cog RailwayCont.): Geared locomotives of the Roaring Camp & Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad: Shay Dixiana, Climax Bloomsburg, and Heisler Tuolumne. Sidebar. The geared locomotives of Roaring Camp & Big Trees -- Interborough Rapid Transit System (original line) -- Alternating-current electrification of the New Yor, New Haven & Hartford Railroad -- Pullman sleeping car Glengyle -- Texas & Pacific no. 610, Lima "Super-Power" steam locomotive. Specifications: Texas & Pacific no. 610 -- Pioneer Zephyr -- Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 electric locomotive no. 4800 -- Electro-Motive FT freight-service diesel-electric locomotive -- Norfolk & Western no. 611, Class J stem locomotive. Specifications: Norfolk & Western no. 611, Class J steam locomotiveCont.): Southern Pacific no. 4294 "Cab-in-front" locomotive -- Disneyland monorail system -- Road and off-road transportation. Introduction -- Lombard steam log hauler -- Holt Caterpillar tractor -- Jacobs engine brake retarder. Sidebar. The engine without the Jake Brake/The engine with the Jake Brake -- Crawler transporters of Launch Complex 39 -- Air and space transportation. Introduction -- Sikorsky VS-300 helicopter. Specifications: Sikorsky VS-300 (final variant) -- Atlas launch vehicle -- RL-10 rocket engine -- Saturn V rocket -- Research and development. Introduction -- Alden Research Laboratory rotating boom -- 100-inch Hooker Telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory -- Cooperative fuel research engineCont.): Aerodynamics range, Aberdeen Proving Ground -- Icing research tunnel, NASA Lewis Research Center -- Rotating-arm model-test facility -- McKinley Climatic Laboratory -- Experimental breeder reactor 1 -- Association of American Railroads' railroad-wheel dynamometer -- Vallecitos boiling water reactor -- Stanford Linear Accelerator Center -- Communications and data processing. Introduction -- Edison phonograph -- Paige compositor -- Pitney-Bowes Model "M" postage meter -- Xerography. Sidebar. The xerographic process -- IBM 350 RAMAC disk file -- Biomedical engineering. Introduction -- Blood heat exchanger