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The following is a list of Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmarks as designated by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers since it began the program in 1971. The designation is granted to existing artifacts or systems representing significant mechanical engineering technology. Mechanical Engineering Heritage Sites are particular locales at which some event or development occurred or which some machine, building, or complex of significance occupied. Mechanical Engineering Heritage Collections refers to a museum or collection that includes related objects of special significance to, but not necessarily a major evolutionary step in, the historical development of mechanical engineering.[1]
There are 264 landmarks are on the list.[2]
Ref# | Year added | Name | Image | Built / Established | Location | Region/state | Country | Notes |
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1 | 1973 | Ferries & Cliffhouse Cable Railway Power House | 1887 | San Francisco | California | United States | One of the most complicated cable-car systems to run from a single station. | |
2 | 1973 | Leavitt-Riedler Pumping Engine | 1894 | Boston | Massachusetts | United States | Unusual triple-expansion, three-crank 'rocker' engine, driving high-capacity, high-speed pumps. | |
3 | 1974 | A.B. Wood Screw Pump | 1914 | New Orleans | Louisiana | United States | The most advanced low-lift drainage pump in use in the early 20th century, later used worldwide. | |
4 | 1975 | Portsmouth-Kittery Naval Shipbuilding Activity | 1774 | Kittery | Maine | United States | First US naval shipyard, achieving notable firsts in technology and producing many well-known US naval vessels. | |
5 | 1975 | Boyden Hydraulic Turbines | 1871 | Cohoes | New York | United States | Two of the oldest surviving water turbines, probably the largest and nearly the most powerful ever built in the United States for mechanical drive. Located at Harmony Mills. | |
6 | 1975 | Curtis 5000-kW Vertical Turbine | 1903 | Schenectady | New York | United States | The most powerful steam turbine-generator in the world at the time of its construction. | |
7 | 1975 | Saugus Ironworks | 1647 | Saugus | Massachusetts | United States | Replica museum of the first successful commercial ironworks in North America. | |
8 | 1975 | Pioneer Oil Refinery California Star Oil Works | 1876 | Newhall | California | United States | A replica of the first successful commercial oil refinery in the US West. | |
9 | 1975 | Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Scoop Wheel & Engines | 1852 | Chesapeake City | Maryland | United States | 19th-century steam pumps at the (former) summit of the ship canal. | |
10 | 1975 | USS Texas' Reciprocating Steam Engines | 1914 | La Porte | Texas | United States | Last reciprocating marine engines installed in a naval ship. | |
11 | 1975 | Paige Compositor | 1877 | Hartford | Connecticut | United States | First US typography machine to set, justify, and distribute foundry type from a common case using one operator. | |
12 | 1976 | Reynolds-Corliss Pumping Engine | 1917 | Jacksonville | Florida | United States | Early 20th-century water pump driven by a Corliss steam engine. | |
13 | 1976 | Childs-Irving Hydroelectric Project | 1909 | Phoenix | Arizona | United States | Early 20th-century hydroelectric plant incorporating innovative technologies. | |
14 | 1976 | Hanford B Reactor | 1944 | Richland | Washington | United States | First US plutonium production reactor placed in commercial operation. | |
15 | 1976 | Magma Copper Mine Air Conditioning System | 1937 | Superior | Arizona | United States | First air-conditioned mine in North America. | |
16 | 1976 | Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway | 1891 | Pikes Peak | Colorado | United States | Highest railway in the US and highest rack railway in the world. | |
17 | 1976 | Edgar Station, Edison Electric Illuminating Co | 1925 | Weymouth | Massachusetts | United States | Power-generation station with one of the world's only high-pressure topping turbines, which set new records in the late 1920s. | |
18 | 1976 | Mount Washington Cog Railway | 1869 | Mount Washington | New Hampshire | United States | World's first cog railway. | |
19 | Folsom Power House #1 | 1895 | Folsom | California | United States | One of the first successful uses of hydroelectric power in the world, including the first successful long-distance transmission of power. | ||
20 | 1977 | Crawler Transporters of Launch Complex 39 | 1965 | Cape Canaveral | Florida | United States | Two of the largest ground vehicles ever built, including automatic load-leveling systems. | |
21 | 1977 | Fairmount Water Works | 1815 | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | United States | First large-scale application of steam pumping, later water power, to public water supply. | |
22 | 1977 | USS Olympia, Vertical Reciprocating Steam Engines | 1892 | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | United States | Two of the first vertical triple-expansion marine engines. | |
23 | 1977 | Pit-Cast Jib Crane | 1905 | Birmingham | Alabama | United States | Last US pit-cast jib crane to operate in the casting of iron pipe. | |
24 | 1977 | State Line Generating Unit 1 | 1929 | Hammond | Indiana | United States | World's largest electric-power generator for nearly 25 years, achieving many design firsts. | |
25 | 1977 | Pratt Institute Power Plant | 1887 | Brooklyn | New York | United States | The oldest steam-generating plant of its kind in the Northeast United States. | |
26 | 1977 | Monongahela Incline | 1870 | Pittsburgh | Pennsylvania | United States | First US passenger incline. | |
27 | 1977 | Duquesne Incline | 1877 | Pittsburgh | Pennsylvania | United States | Second US passenger incline. | |
28 | 1977 | Great Falls Raceway and Power System | 1792 | Paterson | New Jersey | United States | First major US water power system and basis for integrating urban planning with industrial development. | |
29 | 1977 | Vulcan Street Power Plant | 1882 | Appleton | Wisconsin | United States | First Edison hydroelectric central station. ASME was joined in this landmark's dedication by the IEEE and ASCE. | |
30 | Wilkinson Mill | 1810 | Pawtucket | Rhode Island | United States | Early 19th-century textile mill and machine shop. | ||
31 | 1978 | Interborough Rapid Transit System (Original Line) | 1904 | New York | New York | United States | The first fully electrically signaled railroad in the United States and the first practical subway in New York City. | |
32 | 1978 | Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Old Main Line | 1828 | Maryland | Maryland | United States | First US railroad in public service. | |
33 | 1978 | Ringwood Manor Iron Complex | 1740 | Ringwood | New Jersey | United States | Surviving 18th-century iron manufacturing center. | |
34 | 1978 | Joshua Hendy Iron Works | 1906 | Sunnyvale | California | United States | Early 20th-century ironworks demonstrating the adaptability required for industrial survival. | |
35 | 1979 | Hacienda La Esperanza Sugar Mill Steam Engine | 1861 | San Juan | Puerto Rico | United States | Typical beam steam engine of the mid-19th century, directly connected to sugar crushing rolls. | |
36 | 1979 | RL-10 Rocket Engine | 1958 | West Palm Beach | Florida | United States | First rocket engine to use high-energy liquid hydrogen as fuel. | |
37 | 1979 | A. O. Smith Automatic Frame Plant | 1920 | Milwaukee | Wisconsin | United States | Prototype of the automated factory. (No longer exists). | |
38 | 1979 | Morris Canal (Reaction) Turbine | 1850 | Stewartsville | New Jersey | United States | Early reaction, or Scotch, turbine, a type that later found widespread application. | |
39 | 1979 | Experimental Breeder Reactor I | 1951 | Arco | Idaho | United States | World's first nuclear power plant to demonstrate the breeder concept. | |
40 | 1979 | Drake Oil Well | 1859 | Titusville | Pennsylvania | United States | First practical oil recovery system using salt-well drilling techniques and modern pipe-driving methods, marks beginning of US petroleum industry. | |
41 | 1980 | Springfield Armory | 1794 | Springfield | Massachusetts | United States | First US armory noted for machinery for mass production of small arms, including the Blanchard lathe. | |
42 | 1980 | East Wells (Onieda) Street Power Plant | 1918 | Milwaukee | Wisconsin | United States | Pilot plant for US development of pulverized-coal firing in power-plant boilers. | |
43 | 1980 | Watkins Woolen Mill | 1868 | Lawson | Missouri | United States | The best preserved 19th-century woolen mill in North America. | |
44 | 1980 | Fusion-welded Test Boiler Drum | 1930 | Chattanooga | Tennessee | United States | first fusion-welded boiler drum, tests on which led to widespread acceptance in industry. | |
45 | 1980 | Georgetown Steam Plant | 1906 | Seattle | Washington | United States | Steam plant with early Curtis turbines, marking the beginning of the end of the reciprocating steam engine as the central station prime mover. | |
46 | 1980 | Commonwealth Building Heat Pump | 1948 | Portland | Oregon | United States | First large commercial building in the United States to pioneer the use of heat pumps for heating and cooling. | |
47 | 1980 | Shippingport Nuclear Power Station | 1958 | Shippingport | Pennsylvania | United States | First US commercial central electric-generating station to use nuclear energy. | |
48 | 1980 | Edison 'Jumbo' Engine-driver Dynamo | 1882 | Dearborn | Michigan | United States | One of six dynamos from Edison's Pearl Street Station, the prototype for US central-station power generation. | |
49 | 1980 | Marine-type Triple-expansion, Engine-driven Dynamo | 1891 | Dearborn | Michigan | United States | Sole surviving engine-generator set marking the beginning of large-scale electric power generation in the United States. | |
50 | Cooperative Fuel Research Engine | 1928 | Waukesha | Wisconsin | United States | Pioneer variable-compression laboratory engine for testing fuels. | ||
51 | 1980 | Port Washington Power Plant | 1935 | Milwaukee | Wisconsin | United States | The world's most thermally efficient steam plant for many years. | |
52 | 1980 | Saturn V Rocket (Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center) | 1967 | Houston | Texas | United States | Three sites (Texas, Florida and Alabama) were simultaneously designated (via satellite) in July 1980. | |
53 | 1980 | Saturn V Rocket (Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex) | 1967 | Cape Canaveral | Florida | United States | Three sites (Texas, Florida and Alabama) were simultaneously designated (via satellite) in July 1980. | |
54 | 1980 | Saturn V Dynamic Test Vehicle (U.S. Space & Rocket Center) | 1966[3][4] | Huntsville | Alabama | United States | Three sites (Texas, Florida and Alabama) were simultaneously designated (via satellite) in July 1980. | |
55 | 1980 | Blood Heat Exchanger | 1957 | Amherst | New York | United States | The first commercial human-blood heat exchanger for controlling hyperthermic temperatures during open-heart surgery. | |
56 | 1980 | Rocky River Pumped-storage Hydroelectric Plant | 1929 | New Milford | Connecticut | United States | Early example of the pumped-storage principle, at a power plant. | |
57 | 1980 | Kaplan Turbine at York Haven Dam | 1929 | York County | Pennsylvania | United States | One of the first three Kaplan-type hydraulic turbines in the United States. | |
58 | 1980 | Pioneer Zephyr | 1934 | Chicago | Illinois | United States | First US diesel-powered, stainless-steel streamlined train. | |
59 | 1981 | Chestnut Street Pumping Engine | 1913 | Erie | Pennsylvania | United States | Typical US municipal steam water-pumping engine of the late 19th century and early 20th century. | |
60 | 1981 | Holt Caterpillar Tractor | 1918 | Stockton | California | United States | Earliest track-type gasoline-powered tractor, influencing designs worldwide. | |
61 | 1981 | Michigan-Lake Superior Power Hydroelectric Plant | 1902 | Sault Ste. Marie | Michigan | United States | An early, extremely large-scale, low-head hydropower plant using many small turbines. | |
62 | 1981 | Southern Pacific #4294 Cab-in-Front Steam Locomotive | 1944 | Sacramento | California | United States | Example of the final phase of US steam locomotive development in size and power. | |
63 | 1981 | Jackson Ferry Shot Tower | 1807 | Austinville | Virginia | United States | One of the few surviving shot towers for making spherical lead shot. | |
64 | 1981 | Graue Mill | 1852 | Oak Brook | Illinois | United States | One of a few survivors of typical US mill machinery with wood as the principal material. | |
65 | 1981 | Evinrude Outboard Motor located at Outboard Marine Corporation | 1909 | Milwaukee | Wisconsin | United States | Early model of outboard motor for small boats, now standard. | |
66 | 1981 | Mount Wilson Observatory, 100-inch Hooker Telescope | 1918 | Los Angeles County | California | United States | Unique telescope mirror support and use of mercury flotation to reduce friction. | |
67 | 1981 | Hiwassee Dam Unit 2 Reversible Pump-Turbine | 1956 | Cherokee County | North Carolina | United States | The first integrated pump-turbine to be installed in a US power plant and also the largest and most powerful in the mid-20th century. | |
68 | 1981 | Edison Experimental Recording Phonograph | 1877 | West Orange | New Jersey | United States | The world's first practical sound recording machine. | |
69 | 1981 | Creusot Steam Hammer | 1876 | Le Creusot | Saône-et-Loire | France | The most powerful steam hammer in the world for many years. | |
70 | 1981 | Newcomen Engine | 1712 | Dartmouth | South Devon | United Kingdom | Direct descendant of Thomas Newcomen's first atmospheric steam engine. Located at the Dartmouth Museum. | |
71 | 1981 | ALCOA 50,000-ton Hydraulic Forging Press | 1954 | Cleveland | Ohio | United States | One of the world's largest fabrication tools, dominant in aircraft and aerospace development. | |
72 | 1981 | Rotating-arm Model-test Facility at Stevens Institute of Technology | 1945 | Hoboken | New Jersey | United States | The world's first model-test facility to conduct maneuverability and control experiments for surface ships, submersibles, and airships. | |
73 | 1982 | Turbinia | 1897 | Newcastle upon Tyne | Tyne and Wear | United Kingdom | The world's first turbine-driven ship. | |
74 | 1982 | Anderson-Barngrover Rotary Pressure Sterilizer | 1920 | Santa Clara | California | United States | The world's first continuous-stream automation of the cooking and cooling system for canned food. | |
75 | 1982 | Alden Research Laboratory Rotating Boom | 1908 | Holden | Massachusetts | United States | Early 20th-century test facility for current meters, aircraft propellers, ships' logs, pitot tubes, and mine-sweeping paravanes. | |
76 | 1982 | AC Electrification of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad | 1907 | Cos Cob | Connecticut | United States | A pioneering venture in mainline railroad electrification. The Cos Cob plant operated until October 1986, demolished in 2001. Artifacts were given to the Smithsonian Institution. | |
77 | 1982 | Worthington Horizontal Cross-compound Pumping | 1925 | Erie | Pennsylvania | United States | Corliss-driven pump, typical of early 20th-century US practice. | |
78 | 1982 | Electro-Motive FT Freight-service Diesel-Electric Locomotive | 1939 | St. Louis | Missouri | United States | Prototype of the first mass-produced diesel-electric locomotives used for US freight service. Located at Museum of Transportation as Southern Railway Locomotive #6100. | |
79 | 1982 | Lombard Steam Log Hauler | 1910 | Patten | Maine | United States | The first practical example of crawler-tread vehicles now used in agricultural, construction, and military equipment. Located at the Lumberman's Museum. | |
80 | 1982 | Aberdeen Range, Aberdeen Proving Ground | 1943 | Aberdeen | Maryland | United States | The world's first large-scale, fully instrumented ballistic range for producing data on aerodynamics. | |
81 | 1983 | Corning Ribbon Machine | 1926 | Dearborn | Michigan | United States | Earliest example of the machine that automated light-bulb manufacture. Located at the Henry Ford Museum. | |
82 | 1983 | FMC Citrus Juice Extractor | 1947 | Lakeland | Florida | United States | Early examples of machines that automated extraction of juices from fruit. Item no longer exists. | |
83 | 1983 | Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 Electric Locomotive #4800 | 1943 | Strasburg | Pennsylvania | United States | Locomotive prototype for use on electrified lines in eastern US, also exceptional for its flexible suspension system. Located at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania | |
84 | 1983 | Reed Gold Mine Ten-Stamp Mill | 1895 | Midland | North Carolina | United States | Typical late 19th-century western-US stamp mill. | |
85 | 1983 | PACECO Container Crane | 1959 | Alameda | California | United States | The world's first high-speed, dockside container-handling crane. The cranes were purchased in 1987 by the Port of Nanjing, China where they are now located. They were redesignated in 1988 in conjunction with the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society. | |
86 | 1983 | Owens AR Bottle Machine | 1912 | Toledo | Ohio | United States | World's first automated bottling machine that introduced cheap and plentiful supply of glass containers. No longer exists. | |
87 | 1983 | NS Savannah | 1962 | Newport News | Virginia | United States | The world's first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship. | |
88 | 1983 | Xerography | 1948 | Columbus | Ohio | United States | Early models of revolutionary dry-copying process at the Battelle Memorial Institute. | |
89 | 1983 | Wyman-Gordon 50,000-ton Hydraulic Forging Press | 1955 | Grafton | Massachusetts | United States | One of the world's largest fabrication tools, influencing aviation and aerospace technology. | |
90 | 1984 | IBM 350 RAMAC Disk File | 1956 | San Jose | California | United States | World's first computer storage device with random access to large volumes of data. | |
91 | 1984 | Archimedes Screw Pump | 1890 | Newark | California | United States | One of the US's oldest surviving examples of the wind-driven Archimedes screw-pump. | |
92 | 1984 | Stanford Linear Accelerator Center | 1962 | Menlo Park | California | United States | Unique electromechanical devices and systems in the longest accelerator in the world. | |
93 | 1984 | Holland Tunnel Ventilation System | 1920 | New York | New York | United States | The world's first long underwater tunnel designed for motor vehicles, with innovative ventilating system. | |
94 | 1984 | Norfolk & Western #611, Class J Steam Locomotive | 1941 | Roanoke | Virginia | United States | The last survivor of US coal-fired passenger locomotives, considered among the most advanced of any 4-8-4. Located at Virginia Museum of Transportation | |
95 | 1984 | Sikorsky VS-300 Helicopter | 1939 | Dearborn | Michigan | United States | The first practical US helicopter, pioneering the single-main-rotor concept. Located at the Henry Ford Museum. | |
96 | 1984 | Quincy Mining Company No. 2 Mine Hoist | 1920 | Hancock | Michigan | United States | The world's largest mine hoist. | |
97 | 1984 | SS Great Britain | 1843 | Bristol | Bristol | United Kingdom | The world's first iron-hulled, screw-propelled ship to cross any ocean, leading to Britain's world leadership in maritime commerce. | |
98 | 1984 | SS Jeremiah O'Brien | 1943 | San Francisco | California | United States | One of only two operating survivors of the US emergency-cargo fleet known as Liberty Ships. | |
99 | 1984 | Idols Station, Fries Manufacturing & Power Company | 1898 | Winston-Salem | North Carolina | United States | Typical 19th-century small-scale, low-head run-of-the-river hydroelectric plant. | |
100 | 1984 | Belle Isle Gas Turbine | 1949 | Schenectady | New York | United States | The first gas turbine used for electric utility power generation in the United States. | |
101 | 1984 | St. Charles Avenue Streetcar Line | 1835 | New Orleans | Louisiana | United States | The oldest surviving interurban-urban passenger rail transport system in the United States. | |
102 | 1985 | Atlas Launch Vehicle | 1957 | El Cajon | California | United States | First launch vehicle for the US space program. | |
103 | 1985 | First Hot Isostatic Processing Vessels | 1956 | Columbus | Ohio | United States | Early examples of fabrication vessels using gas pressure and temperature to produce advanced alloy and ceramic products. Located at Battelle Memorial Institute | |
104 | 1985 | Basic-Oxygen Steel Making Vessel | 1955 | Trenton | Michigan | United States | Vessel that introduced the basic oxygen process to the United States. Presently owned by Detroit Steel Company. | |
105 | 1985 | Detroit Edison District Heating System | 1903 | Detroit | Michigan | United States | Early example of typical US district heating plant. | |
106 | 1985 | Cornwall Iron Furnace | 1742 | Cornwall | Pennsylvania | United States | Typical 19th-century US charcoal-fueled blast furnace, fully intact. | |
107 | 1985 | Lowell Power Canal System and Pawtucket Gatehouse | 1796 | Lowell | Massachusetts | United States | Early major US water-power system and the first Francis inward-flow water turbine placed in service and oldest in existence. | |
108 | 1985 | Jacobs Engine Brake Retarder | 1957 | Bloomfield | Connecticut | United States | The first practical mechanism for braking large trucks with engine compression as they descend long, steep grades at controlled speeds. | |
109 | 1985 | Geysers Unit 1 | 1960 | Sonoma County | California | United States | The first commercial geothermal electricity-generating station in North America. | |
110 | 1985 | Harris-Corliss Steam Engine | 1895 | Atlanta | Georgia | United States | Example of a late 19th-century 350-hp Corliss-type steam engine. Located at Randall Brothers, Inc. | |
111 | 1986 | Boulton & Watt Rotative Steam Engine | 1785 | Sydney | New South Wales | Australia | Oldest surviving operable rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt. Located at the Powerhouse Museum. | |
112 | 1985 | TV Emery Rice Steam Engine | 1873 | Kings Point | New York | United States | Mid-19th-century horizontal compound marine steam engine with return connecting rod. | |
113 | 1986 | Fairbanks Exploration Company Gold Dredge No. 8 | 1927 | Fairbanks | Alaska | United States | One of the last mammoth gold dredges in the United States accessible to the public. | |
114 | 1986 | Pitney-Bowes Model M Postage Meter | 1920 | Stamford | Connecticut | United States | Early model of world's first commercial postage meter. | |
115 | 1986 | Disneyland Monorail System | 1959 | Anaheim | California | United States | The first commercial Wenner-Gren monorail system. | |
116 | 1987 | McKinley Climatic Laboratory | 1944 | Eglin Air Force Base | Florida | United States | Test facility with unequalled capacity to simulate a wide range of climatic conditions from arctic cold to jungle moisture for full-scale equipment testing. | |
117 | 1987 | Icing Research Tunnel, NASA Lewis Research Center | 1944 | Cleveland | Ohio | United States | The world's oldest and largest refrigerated icing wind tunnel, with unique heat exchanger and spray system. | |
118 | 1987 | Samson Mine Reversible Waterwheel & Man Engine | 1837 | Sankt Andreasberg | Lower Saxony | Germany | Hoists representative of bygone practice, including a waterwheel for ore hoisting and a mechanism to hoist workers. | |
119 | 1987 | American Precision Museum | 1966 | Windsor | Vermont | United States | ||
120 | 1987 | Robbins & Lawrence Machine Shop | 1846 | Windsor | Vermont | United States | Site of first machine shop to achieve interchangeable manufacture on a practical scale. | |
121 | 1987 | Holly Fire Protection and Water System | 1863 | Lockport | New York | United States | Site of the first US integrated system to supply water for public safety. | |
122 | 1987 | Holly District Heating System | 1877 | Lockport | New York | United States | Site of the first US district heating steam-heating system. | |
123 | 1987 | Kingsbury Thrust Bearing | 1911 | Holtwood | Pennsylvania | United States | First and still-operating Kingsbury thrust bearing in hydroelectric service, later used worldwide for all types of large machinery. Located at Holtwood Dam. | |
124 | 1987 | Chapin Mine Pump | 1893 | Iron Mountain | Michigan | United States | Late 19th-century steeple compound-condensing engine and one of the largest at the time. | |
125 | 1987 | Pullman Sleeping Car Glengyle | 1911 | Dallas | Texas | United States | Earliest known survivor of the fleet of heavyweight, all-steel sleepers built by the Pullman Company. Located at Museum of the American Railroad. | |
126 | 1987 | Westmoreland Iron Works | 1850 | Westmoreland | New York | United States | An early and long-running malleable ironworks. | |
127 | 1987 | Big Brutus Mine Shovel | 1962 | West Mineral | Kansas | United States | One of the world's largest power shovels. | |
128 | 1987 | Vallecitos Boiling Water Reactor | 1957 | Alameda County | California | United States | The world's first privately owned and operated nuclear power plant to deliver significant quantities of electricity to a public utility grid. | |
129 | 1987 | Holyoke Water Power System | 1859 | Holyoke | Massachusetts | United States | Major 19th-century US industrial center for paper and textile industries, known for its machine shops and water-power system. See also: Holyoke Dam, Holyoke Heritage State Park | |
130 | 1987 | Stirling Water-tube Boilers | 1906 | Dalton | Georgia | United States | Oldest existing steam generator in a US cotton mill. | |
131 | 1988 | Roosa Master Diesel Fuel-Injection Pump | 1947 | Windsor | Connecticut | United States | Early developmental models of distributor-type injection pump for controlling engine speed. | |
132 | 1988 | Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad Roundhouse | 1858 | Aurora | Illinois | United States | Innovative railroad yard machine shop for first railroad linking Chicago and the Mississippi River. | |
133 | 1988 | Buckeye Steam Traction Ditcher | 1902 | Findlay | Ohio | United States | Earliest surviving example of the first successful traction ditching machine for laying agricultural drainage tiles. Located at Hancock Historical Museum. | |
134 | 1988 | Geared Locomotives of Heisler, Shay, Climax | 1872 | Felton | California | United States | Early examples of small slow-speed 19th-century geared locomotives. | |
135 | 1988 | Neuchâtel Gas Turbine | 1939 | Neuchâtel | Neuchâtel | Switzerland | The world's first successful electricity-generating gas turbine to go into commercial operation. | |
136 | 1988 | AAR Railroad-wheel Dynamometer | 1955 | Pueblo | Colorado | United States | The first and only railroad dynamometer to test track wheels using vertical and lateral loads as well as thermal braking at the wheel rim. | |
137 | 1989 | Texas & Pacific #610 Lima Superpower Steam Locomotive | 1927 | Rusk | Texas | United States | The sole surviving example of the earliest form of 'superpower' steam locomotives. | |
138 | 1989 | ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code | 1915 | Dearborn | Michigan | United States | The first comprehensive standard for the design, construction, inspection, and testing of boilers and pressure vessels, greatly influencing public safety. Early book on loan to Henry Ford Museum. | |
139 | 1981 | Roebling 80-ton Wire Rope Machine | 1893 | Trenton | New Jersey | United States | The only remaining Roebling machine, largest wire-rope closing machine in 1893. | |
140 | 1989 | Arnold Air Force Base Wind Tunnel | 1955 | Arnold Air Force Base | Tennessee | United States | The world's first large-scale testing facility for jet and rocket engines in simulated high-speed flight conditions. | |
141 | 1989 | Browning Firearms Collection | 1878 | Ogden | Utah | United States | Collection of sporting and military firearms designed by John Moses Browning. Located at Ogden Union Station Museum. | |
142 | 1990 | Pierce-Donachy Ventricular Assist Device | 1973 | Hershey | Pennsylvania | United States | The world's first implantable heart pump to receive widespread clinical use. | |
143 | 1990 | USS Cairo Engine and Boilers | 1862 | Vicksburg | Mississippi | United States | The sole survivor of the fleet of river gunboats built by the Union during the US Civil War. | |
144 | 1990 | Curtis 500-kW Vertical Turbine | 1903 | Indianapolis | Indiana | United States | The first steam turbine electric-generation station. | |
145 | 1990 | Southern Gas Association-PCRC Analog Facility | 1955 | San Antonio | Texas | United States | The first computer system to be applied to the design of natural-gas pipeline systems. | |
146 | 1990 | National Soil Dynamics Laboratory | 1935 | Auburn | Alabama | United States | The world's first full-size laboratory for tillage tools and traction equipment in all types of soils . | |
147 | 1990 | Baltimore & Ohio #4500, Freight, USRA 2-8-2A | 1918 | Baltimore | Maryland | United States | The first USRA freight locomotive built, representing the first standardized family of US locomotives. | |
148 | 1990 | Atlantic Coast Line #1504, USRA 4-6-2A | 1919 | Jacksonville | Florida | United States | An early example of USRA passenger locomotives representing the first US standardization program. Located at the Prime Osborn Convention Center. | |
149 | 1990 | Hydromatic Propeller | 1938 | Windsor Locks | Connecticut | United States | Early example of propeller innovations, including variable-pitch control and feathering capability. Located at the New England Air Museum. | |
150 | 1990 | Pin-Ticketing Machine | 1902 | Miamisburg | Ohio | United States | Early model of first successful price-marking, tag-attachment machine for US retail merchandising. | |
151 | 1991 | Victoria Dutch Windmill | 1870 | Victoria | Texas | United States | Mid-19th-century wind-powered gristmill of Dutch turret-mill style. | |
152 | 1991 | Jeep Model MB | 1947 | Toledo | Ohio | United States | Early four-wheel drive, multipurpose field vehicle representing an unusual combination of modern vehicle design. | |
153 | 1991 | Cruquius Pumping Station | 1849 | Haarlemmermeer | North Holland | Netherlands | 19th-century steam pumping station that drained the Haarlemmermeer. | |
154 | 1991 | Greens Bayou Generator Plant | 1949 | Houston | Texas | United States | The first fully outdoor turbine-generator to be placed in commercial operation. | |
155 | 1991 | Milam High-rise Air Conditioned Building | 1928 | San Antonio | Texas | United States | The first US air-conditioned high-rise office building. | |
156 | 1991 | Lookout Mountain Incline Railway | 1895 | Chattanooga | Tennessee | United States | 19th-century 3-rail incline. | |
157 | 1991 | Pelton Waterwheel Collection | ca. 1880 | Grass Valley | California | United States | Collection on the origins of the Pelton turbine and its principle of the 'splitter' bucket. | |
158 | 1991 | Fresno Scraper | 1883 | Fresno | California | United States | 19th-century example of the scraper whose design served as the basis for most giant earth-movers. | |
159 | 1991 | Nassawango Iron Furnace | 1828 | Snow Hill | Maryland | United States | The earliest surviving hot-blast furnace in the United States. | |
160 | 1992 | ABACUS II Integrated-Circuit Wire Bonder | Dallas | Texas | United States | The world's first practical production machine for the assembly of integrated circuits, making possible their economical production. | ||
161 | 1992 | Q-R-S Marking Piano | 1912 | Buffalo | New York | United States | One of the first machines to produce master rolls for player pianos by recording actual performances. | |
162 | 1992 | Apollo Space Command Module | 1968 | Titusville | Florida | United States | Apollo command module incorporating many innovations to allow safe transport of humans to moon and back. | |
163 | 1992 | Meter-type Gas Odorizer | 1937 | Dallas | Texas | United States | Early safety device for introducing odor into natural-gas lines to make leaks apparent. | |
164 | 1992 | New England Wireless and Steam Museum | 1964 | East Greenwich | Rhode Island | United States | Collection of Rhode Island steam engines, including one of the few surviving built at the Corliss Works. | |
165 | 1992 | Old Mill in Nantucket | 1746 | Nantucket | Massachusetts | United States | The oldest operating smock-type windmill in the United States. | |
166 | 1992 | Milwaukee River Flushing Station | 1888 | Milwaukee | Wisconsin | United States | One of the earliest water-pollution control systems, reducing the concentration of pollutants in an urban stream. | |
167 | 1993 | Ginaca Pineapple Processing Machine | 1911 | Honolulu | Hawaii | United States | Example of automated peeling and slicing machine that led to commercial pineapple production. | |
168 | 1993 | Pegasus 3 Engine BS 916 | 1960 | Bristol | Bristol | United Kingdom | Earliest surviving example of the prototype engine for vertical/short takeoff and landing (V/STOL) jets, namely Harriers and AV-8Bs. | |
169 | 1993 | Cryogenic Cooling System, Fermilab Tevatron | 1983 | Batavia | Illinois | United States | The largest cryogenic system ever built, providing benchmark for superconducting magnet designs. | |
170 | Advanced Engine Test Facility at Marshall | 1964 | Redstone Arsenal | Alabama | United States | Unique cooling system for the testing of aerospace engines. | ||
171 | 1993 | Voyager Spacecraft Interplanetary Explorers | 1972–1977 | Pasadena | California | United States | The two most intelligent machines ever built by NASA space program. Display located at Jet Propulsion Laboratory. | |
172 | 1994 | Bay City Walking Dredge | 1924 | Naples | Florida | United States | The last remaining dredge in the United States with unique propulsion system, designed for a wetlands environment. | |
173 | 1994 | Burton Farmers Gin Mill | 1914 | Burton | Texas | United States | The earliest known survivor of an integrated cotton ginning system widely used in the southern United States. | |
174 | 1994 | Crown Cork and Soda Filling Machine | 1892 | Baltimore | Maryland | United States | One of two surviving automated machines that founded the bottling industry. | |
175 | 1994 | Bergen County Steam Collection | 1987 | Hackensack | New Jersey | United States | A collection of operational steam engines and auxiliary equipment from the 19th century to the 1940s. | |
176 | 1994 | Union Pacific Big Boy 4023 and Centennial 6936 | 1941 | Omaha | Nebraska | United States | Two heavy-tonnage locomotives incorporating the best features of the day. | |
177 | 1994 | Barker Turbine/Hacienda Buena Vista | 1853 | Ponce | Puerto Rico | United States | The only known example of a Barker hydraulic turbine, the earliest practical reaction type. | |
178 | 1994 | Boeing 367-80 | 1954 | Fairfax County | Virginia | United States | Prototype of the Boeing 707 and most jet transport systems, establishing economic feasibility of commercial air travel. Located at Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. | |
179 | 1994 | Newell Shredder | 1969 | San Antonio | Texas | United States | The second and earliest surviving automobile shredder for recycling scrap metal. | |
180 | 1994 | Johnstown Incline | 1891 | Johnstown | Pennsylvania | United States | One of the world's steepest vehicular inclines, typical of several built in the 19th century in Western Pennsylvania. | |
181 | 1994 | BF Clyde's Cider Mill | 1898 | Mystic | Connecticut | United States | The oldest steam powdered cider mill in the US. A rare survivor of a once-commonplace rural US industry. | |
182 | 1995 | Knight Foundry and Machine Shop | 1873 | Sutter Creek | California | United States | One of the earliest US water-powered foundry-machine shops, including Knight impulse turbines. | |
183 | 1995 | Wright Field 5-foot Wind Tunnel | 1921 | Wright-Patterson Air Force Base | Ohio | United States | Early example of the 'modern' wind tunnel for aircraft-model testing. | |
184 | 1995 | Gravimetric Coal Feeder | 1957 | Cleveland | Ohio | United States | The earliest known coal feeder, representing innovations that influenced nearly all industries using coal-fired boilers. | |
185 | 1995 | Ljungström Air Preheater | 1920 | Stockholm | Stockholm County | Sweden | Experimental model of the industrial air preheater, now used worldwide. | |
186 | 1995 | Steamboat William G. Mather | 1925 | Cleveland | Ohio | United States | Prototypical ore boat on the Great Lakes. | |
187 | 1996 | NASA Ames Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel | 1956 | Mountain View | California | United States | R&D facility for testing of supersonic aircraft and spacecraft. | |
188 | 1996 | Garfield Thomas Water Tunnel | 1949 | State College | Pennsylvania | United States | Unique experimental facility for hydrodynamic research and testing. Located at Pennsylvania State University | |
189 | 1996 | Montgomery Glider | 1883 | San Carlos | California | United States | First heavier-than-air human-carrying aircraft to achieve controlled piloted flight. Located at Hiller Aviation Museum. | |
190 | 1996 | Hart Parr Tractor | 1903 | Charles City | Iowa | United States | Earliest known internal-combustion-engined agricultural tractor in the United States. | |
191 | 1996 | SS Badger Carferry | 1952 | Ludington | Michigan | United States | One of the last operating American steam lake boats with reciprocating engines and coal-fired boilers. | |
192 | 1996 | Thermo King© C Refrigeration Unit | 1940 | Minneapolis | Minnesota | United States | Earliest known refrigeration unit for trucks, having worldwide impact on food preservation. | |
193 | 1997 | Alligator Amphibian | 1940 | Quantico | Virginia | United States | Prototype of all tracked ship-to-shore landing vehicles. Located at the Marine Corps Air-Ground Museum | |
194 | 1997 | Kew Bridge Cornish Beam Engines | 1975 | Brentford | Greater London | United Kingdom | Five notable 19th-century Cornish beam engines for municipal water supply. | |
195 | 1997 | Bay Area Rapid Transit System | 1972 | San Francisco Bay Area | California | United States | The most advanced automated urban rail transit system incorporating many innovations, marking a new generation of rail travel. | |
196 | 1997 | Bessemer Conversion Engine | ca. 1900 | Rockford | Michigan | United States | An early example of the successful conversion of steam engines to internal-combustion engines. | |
197 | 1998 | David Taylor Model Basin | 1939 | Bethesda | Maryland | United States | Among the world's largest test facilities for the development of ship design | |
198 | 1998 | GE's Ultra High Pressure Apparatus for the Production of Diamonds | 1954 | Schenectady | New York | United States | The first apparatus to consistently produce industrial diamonds, demonstrating fundamentals of producing and containing very high pressures and becoming the basis for the industrial-diamond production that followed. Located at the Schenectady Museum. | |
199 | 1998 | Hulett Ore Unloaders | 1912 | Cleveland | Ohio | United States | The largest and oldest surviving example of a highly efficient materials-handling machine unique to the Great Lakes that revolutionized ore handling and led to its rapid adoption throughout the lower-lake ore ports. In 2000, two of the four loaders have been demolished and scrapped, while the other two were dissambled. | |
200 | 1998 | Paddle Steamer Uri | 1901 | Lucerne | Lucerne | Switzerland | The oldest operating vessel with a diagonal, compound steam engine, with disc valve gear. | |
201 | 1998 | Cooper Steam Traction Engine Collection | 1860–1883 | Mount Vernon | Ohio | United States | Engines from the collection are among the oldest surviving agricultural steam engines, from 1860 to 1883, showing the conversion to mechanized farming. Located at the Knox County Historical Society. | |
202 | 1998 | William Tod Rolling-Mill Engine | 1914 | Youngstown | Ohio | United States | Representative of steam-powered rolling-mill-engine drives early in the transition to electric drive and typical of the largest work pieces produced by U.S. foundries and forges. | |
203 | 1998 | Siegfried Marcus Car | ca. 1875 | Vienna | Austria | Direct predecessor of the modern automobile. Located at the Technical Museum, Vienna. | ||
204 | 1999 | Kinne Water Turbine Collection | 1907–1937 | Watertown | New York | United States | The largest collection of American turbine development. Located at the Jefferson County Historical Society. | |
205 | 1999 | Peterborough Hydraulic (Canal) Lift Lock | 1904 | Peterborough | Ontario | Canada | The world's highest operating hydraulic lift lock, operating on the balance principle. | |
206 | 1999 | Merrill Wheel Balancing System | 1945 | Englewood | Colorado | United States | Innovative method of wheel balancing (on the vehicle) adopted worldwide. | |
207 | 2000 | Refrigeration Research Museum | 1890–1960 | Brighton | Michigan | United States | A private collection that represents many of the advances in mechanical refrigeration for US residential and commercial use from the late 19th century up to 1960. | |
208 | 2000 | Fairbanks-Morse Y-VA Engine Diesel | 1924 | Lee County | Florida | United States | The earliest (perhaps only) existing example of early high-compression, cold-start, full-diesel engines developed in the United States for isolated or rural power generation machinery before widespread electrification was available. | |
209 | 2000 | USS Albacore | 1953 | Portsmouth | New Hampshire | United States | An experimental submarine that pioneered the teardrop-shaped hull, high-strength steel, and many other test concepts affecting speed, depth changes, and underwater maneuvering. | |
210 | 2000 | Link C-3 Flight Trainer | ca. 1935 | Binghamton | New York | United States | An early flight simulator representative of the first truly effective mechanical device used to simulate actual flight processes. | |
211 | 2000 | Tokaido Shinkansen | 1964 | Tokyo to Shin-Ōsaka | Japan | The world's first high-speed railway, which operated at about 210 km/h (130–160 mph). | ||
212 | 2000 | EIMCO Rocker Shovel Loader, Model 12B | 1938 | Park City | Utah | United States | The first successful mining device to replace human labor in removing the rubble from underground hard-rock blasting. Plaque located at Miners Plaza in historic Old Park City. | |
213 | 2000 | George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering | 1888 | Atlanta | Georgia | United States | Leader in transforming mechanical engineering education from a shop-based, vocational program to a professional one built on rigorous academic and analytical methods. | |
214 | 2001 | Colvin Run Mill | ca. 1810 | Great Falls | Virginia | United States | A good example of a typical early 19th-century (US) water-powered, Evans-type flour mill, restored into operating condition. | |
215 | 2001 | Coolspring Power Museum | 1890–1929 | Coolspring | Pennsylvania | United States | An impressive variety of internal combustion engines, built primarily between 1890 and 1920 and consisting mainly of stationary engines used in industrial applications. | |
216 | 2001 | Arecibo Observatory | 1963 | Arecibo | Puerto Rico | United States | The largest single-aperture telescope ever constructed. Joint designation with IEEE. | |
217 | 2001 | Radio City Music Hall Hydraulically Actuated Stage | 1932 | New York | New York | United States | One of the largest movable stages in the world with innovative hydraulic equipment and controls, a forerunner of other stage designs as well as early aircraft carrier elevator systems. | |
218 | 2002 | Apollo Lunar Module LM-13 | 1972 | Garden City | New York | United States | First piloted vehicle designed to operate solely in the vacuum of space. Located at the Cradle of Aviation Museum. | |
219 | 2002 | Howard Hughes Flying Boat, HK-1 | 1947 | McMinnville | Oregon | United States | The largest wood-constructed and the largest wingspan airplane ever built. Located at the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum. | |
220 | 2002 | Pilatusbahn | 1882 | Mount Pilatus | Switzerland | The world's steepest cog railway. | ||
221 | 2002 | Brandywine River Powder Mills | 1803–1921 | Wilmington | Delaware | United States | The largest U.S. maker of explosive black powder, a once-important and now-obsolete 19th-century technology. | |
222 | 2002 | Ditch Witch® DWP Service-Line Trencher | 1952 | Perry | Oklahoma | United States | The first mechanized, compact service-line trencher. | |
223 | 2003 | Solar Energy and Energy Conversion Laboratory | 1954 | Gainesville | Florida | United States | Pioneering developments in solar-energy applications, with global accomplishments in training and innovation. | |
224 | 2003 | Wright Flyer III | 1905 | Dayton | Ohio | United States | The first practical airplane. Part of the Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park | |
225 | 2003 | Rumely Companies' Agricultural Products | 1853 | La Porte | Indiana | United States | Produced a line of agricultural equipment that played a vital role in the evolution of farming. | |
226 | 2003 | Eddystone Station Unit #1 | 1960 | Eddystone | Pennsylvania | United States | The second U.S. (earliest extant) supercritical steam-electric generating unit, pioneering significant increases in steam pressure, steam temperature, and unit size. | |
227 | 2003 | First Ram-Type Blowout Preventer (BOP) | 1922 | Houston | Texas | United States | First ram-type blowout preventer, which sealed the wellhead and controlled pressure during drilling and oil production operations. | |
228 | 2003 | Philo 6 Steam-Electric Generating Unit | 1957 | Columbus | Ohio | United States | The world's first commercial supercritical steam-electric generating unit. | |
229 | 2003 | Great Northern 2313 — Montana Western 31 Gas | 1925 | North Freedom | Wisconsin | United States | The oldest-surviving Electro-motive Company (EMC) gas-electric rail motorcar and the oldest with Lemp control. Located at the Mid-Continent Railway Museum | |
230 | 2004 | Lapeyre Automatic Shrimp Peeling Machine | 1949 | Biloxi | Mississippi | United States | For decades, this elegantly simple solution – known as the Model A Automatic Shrimp Peeler – has proven to be the most effective and widely used method of automatic shrimp peeling, despite attempts by others to develop alternative approaches. | |
231 | 2004 | R.G. Letourneau Mountain Mover | 1922 | Longview | Texas | United States | This innovative scraper moved four times as much earth as conventional machines of the era which required a tractor and two operators. | |
232 | 2004 | Reuleaux Collection Of Kinematic Mechanisms | 1882 | Ithaca | New York | United States | The world’s largest collection of 19th-century kinematic mechanisms. Located at Cornell University | |
233 | 2005 | Model T | 1908–1927 | Dearborn | Michigan | United States | 15 millionth Model T to come off the assembly line, marking the end of its production. Located at The Henry Ford. | |
234 | 2005 | The United States Standard Screw Threads | 1864 | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | United States | The first US system of standardized screw threads. | |
235 | 2005 | Ottmar Mergenthaler's Square Base Linotype Machine | 1886 | Carson | California | United States | One of two surviving square-base linotypes. Located at the International Printing Museum | |
236 | 2005 | Birome Ballpoint Pen Collection | 1938–1948 | Buenos Aires | Argentina | First ballpoint pens; utilized the concept of a quick-drying ink whose flow is controlled by gravity and a metal ball housed in a socket. | ||
237 | 2005 | Eiffel Drop Test Machine and Wind Tunnel | 1903 & 1912 | Paris | France | Most accurate to date drop-test device and wind tunnel to measure drag on falling objects of various shapes. | ||
238 | 2006 | Grumman Wildcat “Sto-Wing” Wing-folding Mechanism[5] | Kalamazoo | Michigan | United States | First functional wing-folding mechanism, enabling aircraft to take up less space on ships. Located at Air Zoo. | ||
239 | 2006 | Hughes Glomar Explorer | 1972 | Houston | Texas | United States | A deep-sea drillship platform initially built for the United States Central Intelligence Agency Special Activities Division secret operation Project Azorian to recover the sunken Soviet submarine, K-129, lost in April 1968. | |
240 | 2006 | Cooper-Bessemer Type GMV Integral-Angle Gas E | 1944 | Mount Vernon | Ohio | United States | Providing efficient compression energy for natural gas, petrochemical, refinery, and power industries around the world. Located at the Knox County Historical Museum. | |
241 | 2006 | Noria al-Muhammadiyya | 1361 | Hama | Hama Governorate | Syria | A set of seventeen large water wheels operating on the River Orontes as they have for many centuries. | |
242 | 2006 | Split-Hopkinson Pressure Bar Apparatus (1962) | 1962 | San Antonio | Texas | United States | The first apparatus able to directly generate a complete dynamic (high-rate) stress-strain curve in a single experiment. | |
243 | 2008 | Digital Micromirror Device | 1996 | Plano | Texas | United States | Modulating digital light pulses using up to 2 million micromirrors. | |
244 | 2008 | Johnson Controls Multi-Zone Automatic Temperature Control System | 1895 | Milwaukee | Wisconsin | United States | The first automated temperature control system for multi-zone applications. | |
245 | 2008 | John Penn & Sons Oscillating Steam Engine | 1841 | Dresden | Saxony | Germany | The first steam engine to utilize oscillatory cylinders – installated in the steamboat Diesbar. | |
246 | 2009 | Hughes Two-Cone Drill Bit | 1909 | The Woodlands | Texas | United States | Key technology that allowed drilling through medium and hard rock, tapped vast oil reservoirs much deeper below the surface than previously possible, and significantly improved the efficiency and cost of drilling. | |
247 | 2010 | Belle of Louisville | 1914 | Louisville | Kentucky | United States | The oldest operating “western rivers” steamboat. | |
248 | 2011 | Southern Railway Spencer Shops | 1896 | Spencer | North Carolina | United States | One of the few remaining intact 20th-century railroad locomotive facilities in the United States. Now the North Carolina Transportation Museum. | |
249 | 2011 | Sholes & Glidden 'Type Writer' | 1873 | Milwaukee | Wisconsin | United States | Represents the first commercially successful typewriter to be manufactured in quantity for sale to the public. | |
250 | 2012 | Mr. Charlie Oil Drilling Rig | 1953 | Morgan City | Louisiana | United States | The first offshore drilling rig that was fully transportable, submersible and self-sufficient. | |
251 | 2012 | Textile Machinery Collection at the American Textile History Museum | 1960 | Lowell | Massachusetts | United States | Represents some of the most significant collection of 19th century tools and machinery for the manufacturing of textiles. | |
252 | 2013 | Big Surf Waterpark | 1969 | Tempe | Arizona | United States | The first wave pool in North America to consistently generate 3–5 foot spilling waves suitable for surfing. | |
253 | 2013 | Titan Crane | 1907 | Clydebank | West Dunbartonshire | United Kingdom | The largest crane of the hammer-head or 'Titan' type, and the earliest survivor of its type. | |
254 | 2013 | Collection of the Earliest Self-Governing Windmills | 1870 | Batavia | Illinois | United States | Batavia, IL was the location of 6 'American Farm Windmill' makers from about 1870 until WWII. The Collection contains many early windmills. | |
255 | 2013 | Apollo Space Suit | 1968 | Frederica | Delaware | United States | Model A7L was the primary suit worn by astronauts on Project Apollo. | |
256 | 2014 | Thrust Supersonic Car (ThrustSSC) | 1997 | Coventry | United Kingdom | The first car to officially exceed the speed of sound, the ThrustSSC Supersonic Vehicle. | ||
257 | 2015 | Northern Pacific Rotary Snow Plow No. 2 | 1887 | Duluth | Minnesota | United States | The first machine to reliably remove deeply packed snow from railroad tracks. | |
258 | 2015 | Technology Collection at the George Eastman House | 1949 | Rochester | New York | United States | The world’s preeminent museum of photography with many important artifacts. | |
259 | 2015 | Funicular Giessbach, designed by Carl Roman Abt | 1879 | Giessbach | Brienz | Switzerland | The first funicular to employ a single, two-rail track, with a short side track for the two cars to pass at midpoint. The passing track used turnouts with no moving parts known as Abt Switches. | |
260 | 2016 | Pratt & Whitney R1340 Wasp engine | 1925 | Windsor Locks | Connecticut | United States | The Wasp R-1340 was a significant improvement to the radial aircraft engine design, making commercial aviation viable as early as the 1920s. | |
261 | 2016 | 3D Printing: Stereolithography | 1984 | Rock Hill | South Carolina | United States | Charles Hull developed a process to produce solid three-dimensional objects by successively ‘printing’ thin layers one on top of the other. This was the first commercially available 3D Printer. | |
262 | 2016 | Worthington Direct Acting Steam Pumps | 1838 | Newport News | Virginia | United States | The pumps were direct-acting steam pumps built by the firm of Worthington & Baker. It had worldwide industrial applications. Henry Worthington was a founder of ASME. | |
263 | 2016 | Rainhill Locomotive Trials | 1829 | Rainhill | Lancashire | United Kingdom | The Rainhill Trials were an important competition in the early days of steam locomotive railways, run for the nearly completed Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Five engines competed along a mile length of level track at Rainhill, in Lancashire (now Merseyside). | |
264 | 2017 | Museo Storico dei Motori e dei Meccanismi (Museum of Engines and Mechanisms - University of Palermo) | February 25th, 2011 | Palermo | Sicily | Italy | The collection of the Museum of engines at the University of Palermo consists of both stationary and transportation power units, with an emphasis on automotive and aircraft engines, many of which are now rare. Some of the more notable items include the Neville stationary steam engine and the Ljungström counter-rotating steam turbine, the FIAT 8V and FIAT-Ferrari Dino automobile engines, the Siemens-Halske Sh.IIIa counter-rotary aircraft engine and the General Electric J47 turbojet engine. |
See also[edit]
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
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The F4F-4 was the first version of the Wildcat to feature a Grumman innovation, the Sto-Wing. The Sto-Wing used a novel approach using a compound angle folding-wing that was unique to Grumman...It was a successful design that was later used on the F6F Hellcat and TBF Avenger.
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ASME is one of the leading organizations in the world developing codes and standards
ASME - American Society of Mechanical Engineers - is a 120,000-member professional organization focused on technical, educational and research issues of the engineering and technology community. ASME conducts one of the world's largest technical publishing operations, holds numerous technical conferences worldwide, and offers hundreds of professional development courses each year. ASME sets internationally recognized industrial and manufacturing codes and standards that enhance public safety.
The work of the Society is performed by its member-elected Board of Governors and through its five Councils, 44 Boards and hundreds of Committees in 13 regions throughout the world.
The work of the Society is performed by its member-elected Board of Governors and through its five Councils, 44 Boards and hundreds of Committees in 13 regions throughout the world.
Technical Divisions and Subdivisions
Advancing the science and practice of mechanical engineering is the responsibility of the Society's 37 Technical Divisions and Subdivisions, which span a vast array of disciplines, technologies and industries:
- Advanced Energy Systems - Promotes the advancement of emerging energy conversion devices and processes, such as hydrogen technologies, fuel cells and heat pumps, and understanding of thermo economics.
- Aerospace - Concerns mechanical engineering of aircraft and manned/unmanned spacecraft design, including adaptive structures and materials, propulsion systems and life support equipment.
- Applied Mechanics - Advances the study of how media, including solids, fluids and systems, respond to external stimuli, as well as the specialized areas of shock and vibration and computer applications.
- Bioengineering - Focused on the application of mechanical engineering principles to the conception, design, development, analysis and operation of biomechanical systems.
- Computers & Information in Engineering - Concerned with the application of emerging computer simulation technology to enhance the entire engineering process.
- Design Engineering - Addresses the design concepts of machines and mechanisms, such as fastening/joining methods and gearing, as well as design aspects affecting reliability and manufacturability.
- Dynamic Systems & Control - Concentrates on control methods and devices, from servomechanisms and regulators to automatic controls, for dynamic systems involving forces, motion and/or the flow of energy or material.
- Electronic & Photonic Packaging - Fosters cooperation on mechanical engineering considerations of microelectronics, photonics, microwave and microelectromechanical systems design and manufacturing.
- Environmental Engineering - Concerns air, ground and water pollution control technologies, including environmental remediation and mixed hazardous/radioactive waste management.
- Fluids Engineering - Involved in fluid mechanics in all types of systems and processes involving fluid flow, including pumps, turbines, compressors, pipelines, biological fluid elements and hydraulic structures.
- Fluid Power Systems & Technology - Advances the design and analysis of fluid power components, such as hydraulic and pneumatic actuators, pumps, motors and modulating components, in various systems and applications.
- Fuels & Combustion Technologies - Dedicated to the understanding of fuels and combustion systems in modern utility and industrial power plants, including fuels handling, preparation, processing and by-product emissions controls.
- Heat Transfer - Enhances the theory and application of heat transfer in equipment and thermodynamic processes in all fields of mechanical engineering and related technologies.
- Information Storage & Processing Systems - Focuses on the mechanics of electronic information storage devices and their manufacture, with primary focus on rigid and floppy disks, magnetic tape, VCR and optical disk technologies.
- Internal Combustion Engine - Furthers mechanical engineering of all types of reciprocating combustion engines, including diesel and spark ignited engines for mobile, marine, rail and stationary power generation applications.
- International Gas Turbine Institute - Supports the design, manufacture and operation of gas turbine and aeroengine machinery in various applications, including aircraft, marine and electric power generation.
- Management - Concerns the management of the engineering process to control resources, both human and material, to improve the quality of products and services provided by organizations.
- Manufacturing Engineering - Fosters the transfer of technology related to manufacturing systems for improved production performance, including machine tools, computer integrated manufacturing and robotics.
- Materials - Focuses on the properties of materials, such as metals, ceramics, composites and polymers, and its influence on design consideration in materials selection for engineering structures.
- Materials Handling Engineering - Promotes the dissemination and application of technological advancements in material transport systems through mechanical engineering, systems engineering and information technology.
- Microelectromechanical Systems Subdivision - Furthers developments of miniature devices combining electrical, mechanical, optical, chemical and/or biological components fabricated via integrated circuit or similar manufacturing techniques.
- Noise Control & Acoustics - Advances the application of physical principles of acoustics to the solution of noise control problems, as well as the uses of acoustics in industrial applications.
- NonDestructive Evaluation Engineering - Covers the evaluation of critical system components for material/defect/structure characterization through nondestructive methods, such as ultrasonics, radiography and other techniques.
- Nuclear Engineering - Concerns the design, development, testing, operation and maintenance of nuclear reactor systems and components, fusion, heat transport, nuclear fuels technology and radioactive waste.
- Ocean, Offshore & Arctic Engineering - Promotes international technological progress in the recovery of energy resources in offshore and arctic environments, as well as systems, equipment and vehicles for underwater sea usage.
- Petroleum - Covers mechanical systems used in the entire area of petroleum drilling, production, refining, processing, and transportation, as well as management and environmental concerns.
- Pipeline Systems Division - Promotes pipeline systems technology, including automation, rotating equipment, geotechnics, heat transfer, offshore, materials, GIS, database, environmental issues, design, construction, and integrity.
- Plant Engineering & Maintenance - Focuses on the design, fabrication, installation, operation and maintenance of manufacturing systems, equipment, processes and facilities to create products of enhanced value.
- Power - Disseminates information on the research, design, operation, economics, and environmental effects of fossil-fired thermal power generation systems, including hydroelectric.
- Pressure Vessels & Piping - Concerns the design, fabrication, inspection, operation and failure prevention of power boilers, heating boilers, pipelines, pumps, valves and other pressure-bearing components and vessels.
- Process Industries - Focuses on the design of systems and machines for heating, cooling or treating industrial fluids and gases, including the efficient management and control of the processes themselves.
- Rail Transportation - Covers the mechanical design, construction, operation and maintenance of locomotives, freight, passenger and commuter cars in railroads and mass transit systems.
- Safety Engineering & Risk Analysis - Promotes practices that lead to reduced risk and loss prevention by creating safer products, processes, and occupational environments.
- Solar Energy - Concerned with all aspects of solar-derived energy for mechanical and electrical power generation, as well as wind energy and ocean thermal energy conversion.
- Solid Waste Processing - Addresses the design, construction and operation of solid waste processing and disposal facilities, including waste-to-energy combustors, materials recovery/recycling, landfills and composting.
- Technology & Society - Covers all issues concerning the inter-relationships between technological innovation and the world community, as well as the social responsibility of the engineer.
- Textile Engineering - Focuses on product and process technology for the improvement of fiber, composite material, textile, and apparel manufacturing operations, machinery and instrumentation.
- Tribology - Involved in all aspects of friction, lubrication and wear in mechanical designs and manufacturing processes, as well as its economic impact on system reliability and maintainability.
Popular Publications from ASME
The ASME committees within the different divisions and subdivisions develops, updates and publish some of the worlds most used codes and standards. Some of the popular titles are:
ASME 2004 Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code - The Code, which is issued once every three years, is comprised of 28 separate volumes which establish rules of safety governing the design, fabrication and inspection of boilers and pressure vessels, including nuclear power systems. The Code has been updated to incorporate advancements in boiler and pressure vessel design, materials and applications, and provides the latest information to maintain ASME Code Symbol Stamps.
ASME 2004 Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code - The Code, which is issued once every three years, is comprised of 28 separate volumes which establish rules of safety governing the design, fabrication and inspection of boilers and pressure vessels, including nuclear power systems. The Code has been updated to incorporate advancements in boiler and pressure vessel design, materials and applications, and provides the latest information to maintain ASME Code Symbol Stamps.
ASME A17-CD - CD-ROM for Elevators and Escalators. Includes: A17.1 Safety Code for Elevators and Escalators - A17.2 Guide for Inspection of Elevators, Escalators and Moving Walks - A17.3 Safety Code for Existing Elevators and Escalators
ASME B31.1 - 2001 Power Piping - The code prescribes minimum requirements for the design, materials, fabrication, erection, test, and inspection of power and auxiliary service piping systems for electric generation stations, industrial institutional plants, central and district heating plants. The code covers boiler external piping for power boilers and high temperature, high pressure water boilers in which steam or vapor is generated at a pressure of more than 15 PSIG; and high temperature water is generated at pressures exceeding 160 PSIG and/or temperatures exceeding 250 degrees F.
ASME B31.3 - 2002 Process Piping - The Code contains rules for piping typically found in petroleum refineries; chemical, pharmaceutical, textile, paper, semiconductor, and cryogenic plants; and related processing plants and terminals. The Code prescribes requirements for materials and components, design, fabrication, assembly, erection, examination, inspection, and testing of piping. The Code applies to piping for all fluids including: (1) raw, intermediate, and finished chemicals; (2) petroleum products; (3) gas, steam, air and water; (4) fluidized solids; (5) refrigerants; and (6) cryogenic fluids. Also included is piping which interconnects pieces or stages within a packaged equipment assembly.
ASME V14.5M - 1994 Dimensioning andTolerance - The standard establishes uniform practices for stating and interpreting dimensioning, tolerances, and related requirements for use on engineering drawings and in related documents. For a mathematical explanation of many of the principles in this standard, see ASME Y14.5.1m. Practices unique to architectural and civil engineering, land, welding symbology are not included.
ASME B16.5 - 1996 Pipe Flanges and Flange Fittings - The Standard covers pressure-temperature ratings, materials, dimensions, tolerances, marking, testing, and methods of designating openings for pipe flanges and flanged fittings in sizes NPS 1/2 through NPS 24 and in rating Classes 150, 300, 400, 600, 900, 1500, and 2500. Flanges and flanged fittings may be cast, forged, or (for blind flanges and certain reducing flanges only) plate materials as listed in Table 1A. Requirements and recommendations regarding bolting and gaskets are also included.
ASME B31.4 - 1998 - Pipeline Transportation Systems for Liquid Hydrocarbons and other Liquids - The Code prescribes requirements for the design, materials, construction, assembly, inspection, and testing of piping transporting liquids such as crude oil, condensate, natural gasoline, natural gas liquids, liquefied petroleum gas, carbon dioxide, liquid alcohol, liquid anhydrous ammonia and liquid petroleum products between producers' lease facilities, tank farms, natural gas processing plants, refineries, stations, ammonia plants, terminals (marine, rail and truck) and other delivery and receiving points. Piping consists of pipe, flanges, bolting, gaskets, valves, relief devices, fittings and the pressure containing parts of other piping components. It also includes hangers and supports, and other equipment items necessary to prevent overstressing the pressure containing parts. It does not include support structures such as frames of buildings, buildings stanchions or foundations or any equipment such as defined in para. 400.1.2(B). Requirements for offshore pipelines are found in Chapter IX. Also included within the scope of this Code are: (A) Primary and associated auxiliary liquid petroleum and liquid anhydrous ammonia piping at pipeline terminals (marine, rail and truck), tank farms, pump stations, pressure reducing stations and metering stations, including scraper traps, strainers, and prover loop; (B) Storage and working tanks including pipe-type storage fabricated from pipe and fittings, and piping interconnecting these facilities; (C) Liquid petroleum and liquid anhydrous ammonia piping located on property which has been set aside for such piping within petroleum refinery, natural gasoline, gas processing, ammonia, and bulk plants; (D) Those aspects of operation and maintenance of liquid pipeline systems relating to the safety and protection of the general public, operating company personnel, environment, property and the piping systems.
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