COLUMBUS
Built in Columbus, Ohio, in 1903, this 25 hp engine once powered the
municipal water works in West Manchester, Ohio.
It drove a triplex pump that filled two huge tanks that provided
the water supply by gravity to the town.
It features unusual air starting and a vertical governor that
stops the cam cluster to regulate the speed of the engine.
GEORGE WHITE
This engine was built in a small machine shop in Oil City, Pennsylvania, primarily for oil field use. Only a very few were made and this one pumped crude oil near the top of Halliday Street. Vintage would be about 1910.
BOVAIRD TITAN
This 25 hp engine was built by the Bovaird Company of Bradford,
Pennsylvania, and named Titan. It
is very similar to the Superior engine except for the eccentric operated
intake valve. It
was found north of Bradford just into New York state and operated a
large rod line pumping power. It came
here in the early 1980s..
AIR COMPRESSOR
This compressor can supply compressed air to the Expo Building. It consists of a Century electric motor with a flat belt drive to a Curtis compressor. It represents a starting air compressor for large engines that would be found in a large pump station in the 1920s.