Snow Steam Pump Works water pump

I have some videos up on my website that include snippets of this machine, plus a ribbon loom, a steam powered (actually compressed air for the demo) printing press and some small model engines.

You are a lucky so and so to have something like that in your area.
It must have been a sight to see it working - even if just on compressed air.
Martin

Very Very impressive. Love the picture.

Martin Aislabie said:

You are a lucky so and so to have something like that in your area.
It must have been a sight to see it working - even if just on compressed air.
Martin

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Actually I envy folks in the UK where the idea of preservation seems to have a head start. There are videos on YouTube of some amazing Victorian era pumping stations where they still have run days periodically involving machines way bigger than this one. The NMIH is in what was formerly "Building 94," the electrical repair shop which was part of the Bethlehem Steel mill complex that stretched 5 miles along the Lehigh River. I had a chance to tour that mill with a metallurgy class in the 1960s, they took us around in busses! Getting there is about a 60 mile round trip for me, encumbered with some annoying traffic, or I might hang out there as a volunteer.

I love industrial photography especially historic, well done.