Subjects Steam engine

Includes steam-powered engines used for pumping water, and on construction sites, and in factories.

Black-and-white image of an ornate white building on a riverbank with trees behind it

A new book, more than 40 years in the making, about an iconic Philadelphia building

Spring Garden Northern Liberties, or Schuylkill Works (1844)

Delaware and Kensington Works (1851-1890)

men standing around a trench with pipes seen crossing through it. there is a steam engine on wheels behind them to the left, and a building in the background on the right with a sign they says Hotel Abbey, T G Schmidt & Sons, Pilsner & Puritan Beer.

Pipeline being laid in Wissahickon Avenue