2012年4月19日 · George Corliss, inventor of the Corliss Steam Engine, started as a merchant and entrepreneur before he was an inventor and engineer. The right balance of skills helped him seize opportunities to work on steam engines during the Industrial …

The Corliss valve gear made the engine extremely efficient in steam consumption and was the most efficient system for controlling low to medium speed engines. This particular engine operated for more than eighty years, having been retired not by age but over concern for stack emissions by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Driven by a Corliss steam engine, these large city water pumps were installed in Jacksonville's water supply improvement program in 1915, and each pumped 5 million gallons of water a day until 1930 when the first of the electric-driven peripheral pumping stations began operating. Steam engine operation was discontinued in 1956.

The Corliss engine had a steam consumption of 26 lbs, or 35 per-cent better than the old slide valve units. Corliss’ exclucive right to manu-facture engines embodying his pat-ents expired in 1873, after about 24 years of manufacturing. By 1878 the world famous Reynolds-Corliss engine went into manufacture at Reliance Works, where Reynolds

2019年5月22日 · The Corliss’ debut weekend officially kicks off on Friday, May 31, with a special tour and presentation at 11 a.m. with the museum’s historian, Mike Piersa. Piersa will detail the restoration process and describe different aspects of the machine’s operation, from its 14-foot diameter flywheel to the governor and gauges on the engine.

By the 1870s Corliss' Providence Engine Works was among the world's largest and drew to the state a number of other important builders, and Rhode Island became the steam-engine capital of the nation. This museum contains the finest collection of Rhode Island engines, including one of the few built at the Corliss Works known to survive.

Corliss-driven pump, typical of early 20th-century US practice Smaller and cheaper than a triple-expansion vertical engine, the horizontal cross-compound pumping engine, Pump No. 2, ran at relatively slow revolutions and was considered the height …

Corliss Steam Engine Company. For eight years he was the right-hand man of George H. Corliss and, during that time, made all the drawings for that inventor's numerous patent applications. He was the first of Corliss’ chief assis-tants to leave the Corliss Company. In 1864, he established the William A. Harris Steam Engine Company—also

George H. Corliss, an important contributor to steam engine technology, founded his company in Providence in 1846. Engines that used his patent valve gear were built in large numbers by the Corliss company, and by others, both in the United States and abroad, either under license or in various modified forms once the Corliss patent expired in 1870.

$975 to $2,300; Corliss Steam Engines, 10 Models, 40 to 300 horsepower, and selling for $2,200 to $12,000. The 1875 catalog had the following introduction. “When we first introduced farm engines for threshing purposes, some fourteen or fifteen years ago (1860-1861) few persons believed they would eventually come into general use. In the short