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Cooper Corliss Engine Groups of Company: The Cooper Corliss Engine The Cooper Corliss engine served The Matthiesen-Hegeler Zinc Company of Lasalle, Illinois from 1914 to 1965. One of six large engines, it powered a rolling mill and a line shaft that powered other equipment. In 1981, Fred and Cynthia Carus of Lasalle, Illinois donated the engine to the Stephenson County Antique Engine Club. The club dismantled and moved the engine to Freeport. All labor and trucking were donated. Parts were stored until 1988 when the club acquired the former Stephenson County Nursing Home building, which now houses the museum. In the yard behind the museum, a foundation was made for the 130-ton engine. Seven vertical holes 25 feet deep by two feet in diameter were drilled in the ground and filled with reinforced concrete to support a base containing nearly 100 yards of concrete and 4000 feet of 1-inch diameter steel reinforcement bars. The total cost was $16,000. In 1989, the engine was then assembled by club volunteers. The 25-foot, 4-inch flywheel consistes of twelve 5-ton sections connected by 24 bolts, three inches in diameter, and 96 dog-bone shaped keys 2.5 inches square by thirty inches long. It is supported by a 25-ton crankshaft. Assembly of the engine required 12 hours. In 1990, a 60 by 60 foot metal building was built over the engine at a cost of $30,000. In 1991, the club located and purchased a used gas-fired boiler and installed it in the building with the engine. The engine was test run on July 13, 1991 at six rotations per minute. It is capable of 45 RPM. In 1992 the engine was painted. This required 16 gallons of paint. The engine is the largest flywheel steam engine within 500 miles of Freeport. The flywheel weighs 60 tons and stores a quarter million foot pounds of torque. There is no admission to see the Cooper Engine. Donations are appreciated. Corliss Valve Gear Cooper Corliss Engine Groups of Company

Corliss Boiler Room Steam Engine Group by George H. Corliss Are you an engineer inventor who can sell your own ideas? George Henry Corliss was. During the industrial age, Corliss (1817 - 1888) left school at age 14 and spent his early years working in New York as a clerk in a factory store. He attended an academy in Vermont, but opted to return to the only business he had known previously and opened his own store, working as a merchant. Bored with routine tasks, around age 23, he began to use his mechanical talents to invent and perfect machinery, and after a few years was awarded his first patent for a boot-stitching machine. Corliss moved from New York to Providence, RI, to seek funding to market and produce the stitching machine but his plans changed when he became interested in steam engines. As a result, he took a job at Fairbanks, Bancroft, and Company as a draftsman for their steam engine and boiler manufacturing firm. He rose in seniority, was able to work on his own projects at the company, and after a few years, left to pursue his own ideas as senior partner in Corliss, Nightingale, and Co. His new ideas improved steam engine design which benefited the entire world. Corliss invented a valve that allowed steam to quickly pressurize a piston, moving it back and forth before the steam could condense. He also created governors that would control the steam and exhaust. These advances reduced waste heat and allowed the engine to operate with more uniform motion and lowered fuel costs. He designed, developed, and patented the Corliss Engine based on these improvements. The Inventors Hall of Fame notes that the efficient shuttle valve in the Corliss Engines "paved the way for the widespread use of steam power in nineteenth-century America." In 1856, Corliss opened the Corliss Steam Engine Company in Providence, RI. The steam engines he produced were used in many industrial applications, and were soon exported to Scotland for use in cotton mills. He opened a second

The Eclipse Corliss Engine The Eclipse Corliss Engine Group Classic Engineering Above - The Eclipse Cross Compound Corliss Engine. The Frick Company produced Corliss engines in the following styles :- Horizontal or Vertical form, Condensing or Non-Condensing, single or in pairs. " Compound " Engines, Tandem, Cross, Triple, or Quadruple. The Eclipse Corliss Engine The Eclipse Corliss Engine Group Classic Engineering Above - The Eclipse Cross Compound Corliss Engine. The Frick Company produced Corliss engines in the following styles :- Horizontal or Vertical form, Condensing or Non-Condensing, single or in pairs. " Compound " Engines, Tandem, Cross, Triple, or Quadruple. The valve gear is of the most approved pattern; an independent and separate valve controls each port, and is so placed that a short passage leads with the least amount of waste room to the piston; the exhaust valves, from their position, drain the water from the cylinder. The steam valves are so constructed that they act as relief valves in certain cases, and the valves themselves are solid castings from end to end, and separate from the driving stem The valve stems are made of Deoxidized Phosphor Bronze, as are also the trunnions, glands, shoes and springs, and the stems are made interchangeable. The wrist plate motion opens the steam valves quickly, giving boiler pressure at closest cut-off, and kept in motion up to the point of extreme travel, permitting the point of cut-off to be exactly determined and disengagements effected positively. Both the steam and exhaust valves are given a peculiar dwell movement where it is most needed. The reversal of the valves is bought about without shock, the movement being so easy from a state of rest to a rapid motion, and that without straining the connections, the wear and tear of moving parts - as light as they sometimes are made - is scarcely perceptible. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Th

Firmenname Corliss Steam Engine Company Ortssitz Providence (R.I.) Art des Unternehmens Maschinenfabrik Anmerkungen Teilhaber: Corliss, Nightingale, Clark, Scott, Smith, Grenville, Wood. Bis 1857: "Corliss, Nightingale & Co." (s.d.). 1874: G. H. Corliss, Präsident; W. Corliss, Leiter der Finanzen. Nahe Charles-St. Bahnübergang, auch als West River Street 146 angegeben. Lt.

Rice & Sargent Corliss Engine The Eclipse Corliss Engine Group Classic Engineering Thanks, Guys! I have a few "books" to write, but there's not enough time in a day! As to the work, yes, it's a big undertaking. Keep in mind, Steve was full time on this. I worked Saturdays and some vacation days, and evenings making missing parts and researching. Since the first couple of years, others have joined in, some are regulars, some come and go, but it really helps to have a club or team approach to this. Going into this, I knew it was going to involve a big commitment. I was working on some 7-1/4" gage live steam railroading projects, and building my home shop with side jobs, in between raising 5 kids. The kids were pretty much out of the nest, so it made room for this, but I still had to balance this with my home life and a business. What won out was the chance to work with the actual real thing, not a model or a replica. It had to be preserved, as a piece of steam history, as a piece of local history, and the story had to be told. It literally was dropped in our laps to do. At every turn of the project, the right amount of money or materials would appear in the nick of time. Every time we couldn't get an approval, someone came through with an alternative to keep the project alive. I will probably never know how many friends we had working behind the scenes on our behalf. While no one could accuse me of being overly devout, I do believe in God and I do believe he likes steam engines, because there could be no other explanation for the amazing good fortune that has accompanied this project. So, I'd say this to anyone that finds himself in a similar position: Find a group of like mind friends in your area and just go do it. Don't be intimidated. Like building a model, it happens one operation at a time, before you know it, you've got a few hundred operations behind you and it starts to come together. As an unavoidable side effect, you get an education. When I

Corliss uitvindingen drukvaten door George H. Corliss Je bent een uitvinder ingenieur, kunt u uw eigen ideeën verkopen? George Henry Corliss was. Tijdens het industriële tijdperk van Corliss (1817-1888), liep van als een 14-jaar-oude school en bracht opslaan zijn eerste jaren in New York als klerk in een fabriek. Hij bezocht een school in Vermont, echter, heeft besloten om te gaan terug naar het enige bedrijf had hij eerder bekend en opende zijn eigen bedrijf als een supermarkt. Moe van routinetaken, ongeveer 23 jaar oud, begon hij te verzinnen zijn mechanische talenten en gebruik de machines te perfectioneren, en een paar jaar later ontving zijn eerste patent op een boot-stitching machine. Corliss verplaatst van New York, Providence, RI, op zoek naar steun voor de markt en de producten in de naaimachine maar plannen om dat te veranderen toen hij begon te worden geïnteresseerd in stoommachines. Dientengevolge, nam hij een baan in Fairbanks, Bancroft en bedrijf als woordvoerder van de stoommachine en ketel productie bedrijf. Hij steeg in anciënniteit, hun eigen projecten in het bedrijf werk, en na een paar jaar opnieuw aan het nastreven van hun eigen ideeën als een senior partner van Corliss, Nightingale and co., zijn nieuwe ideeën verbeterde de stoommachine ontwerp, welke voordelen over de hele wereld. Corliss uitgevonden een klep snel druk op een postzegel, waardoor stoom heen en weer boven de stoom te condenseren. Hij creëerde ook de presidenten willen controleren en exploiteren van de stoom. Deze vooruitgang verminderd afval hitte en laat de motor niet in werking met verhoogde fysieke activiteit en lagere brandstofkosten. Hij ontwierp, ontwikkelde en patenteerde de Corliss motor op basis van deze verbeteringen. Uitvinders Hall of Fame notities, dat de effectieve afwisselend in Corliss ventiel motoren "de weg geëffend voor het wijdverbreide gebruik van stoom macht in de negentiende eeuw Verenigde Staten." In 1856 geopend Corliss van Corliss stoommachine di

Corliss Dampfmaschine Heizungsraum Gruppe von George h. Corliss Bist du ein Ingenieur-Erfinder, Ihre eigenen Ideen verkaufen kann? George Henry Corliss war. Während des Industriezeitalters Corliss (1817 - 1888) ging aus der Schule als 14-Year-Old und verbrachte seine ersten Jahre in New York als Angestellter in einem Fabrik-Speicher. Er besuchte eine Schule in Vermont, jedoch hat sich entschieden, gehen Sie zurück an das einzige Unternehmen hatte er zuvor bekannt und eröffnete sein eigenes Geschäft als ein Lebensmittelgeschäft. Müde von Routineaufgaben, etwa 23 Jahre alt, begann er, seine mechanische Talente zu erfinden und Vervollkommnung der Maschinen zu verwenden, und wenige Jahre später erhielt sein erste Patent auf ein Boot-stitching-Maschine. Corliss zog von New York, Providence, RI, suchen Unterstützung für den Markt und die Produkte, die die Nähmaschine aber Pläne zu ändern, wenn er Dampfmaschinen zu interessieren begann. Infolgedessen nahm er einen Job in Fairbanks, Bancroft und Unternehmen als Sprecher für die Dampfmaschine und Kessel Herstellung Geschäft. Er stieg im Dienstalter, eigene Projekte in der Firma arbeiten, und nach ein paar Jahren wieder um verfolgen ihre eigenen Ideen als Seniorpartner von Corliss, Nachtigall und co., seine neuen Ideen verbesserte die Dampfmaschine entwerfen, welche Vorteile auf der ganzen Welt. Corliss erfand ein Ventil, das Dampf schnell Drücken einer Briefmarke, erlaubt, hin-und herbewegen vor der Dampf zu kondensieren. Er schuf auch die Gouverneure den Dampf kontrollieren und ausschöpfen wollen. Diese Fortschritte reduziert Abwärme und erlaubt den Motor für den Betrieb mit mehr Bewegung und reduzierte Kraftstoffkosten. Er konstruiert, entwickelt und patentiert die Corliss-Engine auf Basis von diesen Verbesserungen. Inventors Hall of Fame Hinweise, dass die effektive abwechselnd in Corliss Motoren Ventil "den Weg für den weit verbreiteten Einsatz von Dampfkraft in den neunzehnten Jahrhundert Vereinigte

The Eclipse corliss engine group classic engineering Modern Cotton Mill Engineering Object Description Title Modern Cotton Mill Engineering Creator W.B. Smith Whaley and Company Date 1903 Source Ensor-Brown Collection, Richland County Public Library Subject Cotton manufacture. Cotton textile industry--Southern States. Cotton textile industry--South Carolina. Description 132 p.: ill., 33 x 28 cm.