Sujet

Casting a steam-engine Corliss cylinder - 62 inches in diameter, 6-feet stroke, 1909. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The Modern Mechanical Hercules: How We Harness Steam - Casting a steam-engine Corliss cylinder - 62 inches in diameter, 6-feet stroke, 1909. The firm of John and Edward Wood, of Victoria Foundry, Bolton, '...began to specialise in the manufacture of Corliss engines in 1870, or thereabouts, and their compound and triple-expansion Corliss engines are in use the world over'. From "Illustrated London News", 1909.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM24A49_099

Model release

NA

Property release

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

45,9Mo (588,3Ko) / 42,0cm x 27,4cm / 4960 x 3234 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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