The Improved Corliss Engine Of Modern Design:
Stationary steam engines, simple and compound; especially as adapted to electric lighting purposes:
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The Improved Corliss Engine Of Modern Design:
Stationary steam engines, simple and compound; especially as adapted to electric lighting purposes:
Stationary steam engines, simple and compound; especially as adapted to electric lighting purposes:
Description
The Corliss Engine, as exhibited at the Centennial Exhibition by President Grant, powered all the machines in machinery hall- and stood as a large testament to the American horsepower. In his classic nearly-poetic style, Howells described the massive engine as such:
"All that Great Britain and Germany have sent is insignificant in amount when compared with our own contributions; the superior elegance, aptness*, and ingenuity of our machinery is observable at a glance. Yes, it is still in these things of iron and steel that the national genius most freely speaks; by and by the inspired marbles, the breathing canvases, the great literature; for the present America is voluble in the strong metals and their infinite uses"
-ben horwitz
"All that Great Britain and Germany have sent is insignificant in amount when compared with our own contributions; the superior elegance, aptness*, and ingenuity of our machinery is observable at a glance. Yes, it is still in these things of iron and steel that the national genius most freely speaks; by and by the inspired marbles, the breathing canvases, the great literature; for the present America is voluble in the strong metals and their infinite uses"
-ben horwitz
Creator
Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903
Source
"Stationary steam engines, simple and compound; especially as adapted to electric lighting purposes"
Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903
Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903
Publisher
New York, J. Wiley & sons
Date
1890
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Citation
Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903
, “The Improved Corliss Engine Of Modern Design:
Stationary steam engines, simple and compound; especially as adapted to electric lighting purposes:
,” Materiality and Spectacle 2015, accessed November 27, 2025, https://ds-omeka.haverford.edu/materiality-and-spectacle-2015/items/show/47.
Stationary steam engines, simple and compound; especially as adapted to electric lighting purposes:
,” Materiality and Spectacle 2015, accessed November 27, 2025, https://ds-omeka.haverford.edu/materiality-and-spectacle-2015/items/show/47.