Subjects Pumping Engines

Includes steam engines, water-powered wheels or turbines, and gas-fired and electric pumps, used to provide power that operates pumps.

Centre Square Engine House, location of one of two steam engines used in the city’s original water system. Engraving by Birch.

Centre Square Engine House, ca. 1807

Apparatus for testing Model Turbine Engines used at Fairmount, 1859-60

Apparatus for testing model turbine wheels used at Fairmount, 1859-60

Duplex Pumping Engine, Belmont Works

Duplex Pumping Engine, Belmont Works

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Electric Pump Installations at Lardner’s Point Pumping Station

The Pennypack Sewage Treatment Works in 1914

Pennypack Sewage Treatment Works, 1914

Jonval Turbines at New Mill House, 1870