Gas Blowing Engine

1905/1925

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Gas Blowing Engine
  • Title
  • Gas Blowing Engine
  • Identifier
  • MSP210.B041.I02
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP210.B041.I02
  • Description
  • The Mesta Machine Company produced a number of engines, including the Single Tandem Gas Blowing Engine. Mesta was the first American manufacturer to arrange their air-cylinders or blowers in tandem, directly in back of the gas cylinders. This Mesta blowing engine, normally operated at a rate of 60 revolutions per minute and was known for its competence, especially under high temperatures. The engine is noted for having a thermal efficiency of about 29 percent and a mechanical efficiency of 85.5 percent. Two of these types of engines supplied the blast for a furnace, lowering the initial operations cost.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Mesta Machine Company (West Homestead, Pa.)
    Steel industry and trade--Pennsylvania--West Homestead.
    Engines.
  • Source
  • Mesta Machine Company Photographs, 1906-1925, MSP 210, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Mesta Machine Company Photographs
  • Rights Information
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