FOOS

This 40 hp electric lighting Foos, built circa 1912, first served driving a generator in the Mail Pouch Tobacco plant in Wheeling, West Virginia.  It was found in the oil field near Beallsville, Ohio, where is drove a large pumping power.  It is unusual with its heavy flywheels and early style frame. The original gas bag regulator can be seen mounted on the wall behind.  It came to the museum in 1971. 

TWIN
COOPER BESSEMER

Our 165 hp twin Cooper Bessemer engine drove a two-stage centrifugal water pump at the Brookville, Pennsylvania, waterworks. It was installed in 1945 and retired in 2006.