Subjects Steam engine

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

Fairmount Water Works: The Surprising History of an American Landmark

Annual reports and other documents relating to Philadelphia’s water supply system, 1796-1992

Centre Square Water System

Queen Lane Water Works (1894)

Lardner’s Point Pumping Station (1902)

Belmont Works (1870)

Roxborough Works (1869)

Germantown Works (1851) and Mt. Airy Works (1882)

Spring Garden Northern Liberties, or Schuylkill Works (1844)

Delaware and Kensington Works (1851-1890)

The Chestnut Hill Works (1859-1911)

Frankford Pumping Station (1877)