List of historic mechanical engineering landmarks

Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmarks are those engineering achievements considered to have exceptional historic value by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Although the largest number are in the United States, there are some landmarks in other countries in Canada, Europe, Asia, and South America. The date given is the year that the landmark was built or, in some cases, the or the period in which the landmark was active. Not all of the landmarks still exist or are open to the public.

In addition to recognition as Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmarks, some achievements have been named Mechanical Engineering Heritage Collections (†) or Mechanical Engineering Heritage Sites (‡).

The History and Heritage Manual discusses the Landmark program.^[1] The current list of achievements and the application form are available.^[2][3]

Contents 1 Argentina 2 Australia 3 Austria 4 Canada 5 China 6 France 7 Germany 8 Japan 9 Netherlands 10 Sweden 11 Switzerland 12 Syria 13 United Kingdom 14 United States 14.1 Alabama 14.2 Alaska 14.3 Arizona 14.4 California 14.5 Colorado 14.6 Connecticut 14.7 Delaware 14.8 Florida 14.9 Georgia 14.10 Hawaii 14.11 Idaho 14.12 Illinois 14.13 Indiana 14.14 Iowa 14.15 Kansas 14.16 Louisiana 14.17 Maine 14.18 Maryland 14.19 Massachusetts 14.20 Michigan 14.21 Minnesota 14.22 Mississippi 14.23 Missouri 14.24 Nebraska 14.25 New Hampshire 14.26 New Jersey 14.27 New York 14.28 North Carolina 14.29 Ohio 14.30 Oklahoma 14.31 Oregon 14.32 Pennsylvania 14.33 Puerto Rico 14.34 Rhode Island 14.35 Tennessee 14.36 Texas 14.37 Utah 14.38 Vermont 14.39 Virginia 14.40 Washington 14.41 Wisconsin 15 See also 16 References

Argentina

• Birome Ballpoint Pen Collection (1938–1948)^†

Australia

• Boulton & Watson Rotative Steam Engine (1785)

Austria

• Siegfried Marcus Car (ca. 1875)

Canada

• Peterborough Hydraulic (Canal) Lift Lock (1904)

China

• PACECO Container Crane (1959)

France

• Creusot Steam Hammer (1876)
• Eiffel 1903 Drop Test Machine and 1912 Wind Tunnel

Germany

• Samson Mine Reversible Waterwheel & Man Engine (1521)
• John Penn & Sons Oscillating Steam Engine (1841)

Japan

• Tōkaidō Shinkansen (1964)

Netherlands

• Cruquius Pumping Station (1849)

Sweden

• Ljungstrom Air Preheater (1920)

Switzerland

• Neuchâtel Gas Turbine (1939)
• Pilatusbahn (1882)
• Paddle Steamer Uri (1901)

Syria

• Noria al-Muhammadiyya (1361)

United Kingdom

• Pegasus 3 Engine BS 916 (1960)
• Newcomen Engine (1712)
• Kew Bridge Cornish Beam Engines
• Turbinia (1897)
• SS Great Britain (1843)

United States

Alabama

• Marshall Space Flight Center's Advanced Engine Test Facility (1967)
• Saturn V (1972)
• Sloss Furnaces Pit-Cast Jib Crane (1905)
• National Soil Dynamics Laboratory (1935)

Alaska

• Fairbanks Exploration Company Gold Dredge No. 8 (1928)

Arizona

• Childs-Irving Hydroelectric Project (1909)
• Magma Copper Mine Air Conditioning System (1937)

California

• Fresno Scraper (1883)
• Atlas Launch Vehicle (1957)
• Voyager Spacecraft Interplanetary Explorers (1977)
• Montgomery Glider (1883)
• IBM 350 RAMAC Disk File (1956)
• Ottmar Mergenthaler's Square Base Linotype Machine (1890)
• Geysers Unit 1 (1960)
• Folsom Powerhouse State Historic Park built in (1895
• Anderson-Barngrover Continuous Rotary Pressure Sterilizer (1920)
• Joshua Hendy Iron Works (1906)
• Knight Foundry and Machine Shop (1873)
• Pelton Waterwheel Collection (ca. 1880)^†
• Pioneer Oil Refinery California Star Oil Works Co. (1876)
• Archimedes Screw Pump (1890)
• Ferries & Cliffhouse Cable Railway Power House (1887)
• Southern Pacific #4294 Cab-in-Front Steam Locomotive (1944)
• Disneyland Monorail System (1959)
• Geared Locomotives of Heisler, Shay, Climax (1899)
• Bay Area Rapid Transit System (1972)
• Mount Wilson Observatory, 100-inch Hooker Telescope (1918)
• Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (1962)
• Vallecitos Boiling Water Reactor (1957)
• NASA Ames Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel (1956)
• Holt Caterpillar Tractor (1918)
• SS Jeremiah O'Brien (1943)

Colorado

• Manitou & Pike's Peak Cog Railway (1891)
• AAR Railroad-wheel Dynamometer (1855)
• Merrill Wheel Balancing System (1945)

Connecticut

• Hydromatic Propeller (ca. 1938)
• Paige Compositor (1877)
• Pitney-Bowes Model M Postage Meter (1920)
• Rocky River Pumped-storage Hydroelectric Plant (1929)
• BF Clyde's Cider Mill (1898)
• Roosa Master Diesel Fuel-Injection Pump (1947)
• AC Electrification New York, New Haven & Hartford (1907)
• Jacobs Engine Brake Retarder (1957)

Delaware

• Brandywine River Powder Mills (1803–1921)

Florida

• RL-10 Rocket Engine (1958)
• Saturn V Rocket (1967)
• Apollo Space Command Module (1968)
• FMC Citrus Juice Extractor (1947)
• Bay City Walking Dredge (1924)
• Fairbanks-Morse Y-VA Engine Diesel (1924)
• Reynolds-Corliss Pumping Engine (1917)
• Atlantic Coast Line #1504, USRA 4-6-2A (1919)
• McKinley Climatic Laboratory (1944)
• Solar Energy and Energy Conversion Laboratory (1954)^‡
• Crawler Transporters of Launch Complex 39 (1965)

Georgia

• George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (1888)^‡
• Stirling Water-tube Boilers (1906)
• Harris-Corliss Steam Engine (1895)

Hawaii

• Ginaca Pineapple Processing Machine (1911)

Idaho

• Experimental Breeder Reactor (1951)

Illinois

• Graue Mill (1852)
• Pioneer Zephyr (1934)
• Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad Roundhouse (1855)^‡
• Cryogenic Cooling System, Fermilab Tevatron (1983)

Indiana

• Rumely Companies' Agricultural Products (1853–1931)^‡
• State Line Generating Unit 1 (1929)
• Curtis 500-kW Vertical Turbine (1903)

Iowa

• Hart Parr Tractor (1903)

Kansas

• Big Brutus Mine Shovel (1962)

Louisiana

• A.B. Wood Screw Pump (1914)
• St. Charles Avenue Streetcar Line (1835)

Maine

• Lombard Steam Log Hauler (1910)

Maryland

• Crown Cork and Soda Filling Machine (1892)
• Nassawango Iron Furnace (1828)
• Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Scoop Wheel & Engines (1852)
• Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Old Main Line (1828)
• Baltimore & Ohio #4500, Freight, USRA 2-8-2A (1918)
• Aberdeen Range, Aberdeen Proving Ground (1943)
• David Taylor Model Basin (1939)

Massachusetts

• Edgar Station, Edison Electric Illuminating Co. (1925)
• Springfield Armory (1794)
• Wyman-Gordon 50,000-ton Hydraulic Forging Press (1955)
• Holyoke Water Power System (1859)
• Lowell Power Canal System and Pawtucket Gatehouse (1847)
• Saugus Ironworks (1647)
• Leavitt-Riedler Pumping Engine (1894)
• Alden Research Laboratory Rotating Boom (1908)
• Old Mill in Nantucket (1746)

Michigan

• Sikorsky VS-300 Helicopter (1939)
• Grumman Wildcat “Sto-Wing” Wing-folding Mechanism (1941)
• Marine-type Triple-expansion, Engine-driven Dynamo (1891)
• Edison 'Jumbo' Engine-driver Dynamo (1882)^†
• Michigan-Lake Superior Power Hydroelectric Plant (1902)
• Detroit Edison District Heating System, Beacon St. (1903)
• Refrigeration Research Museum (1890–1960)^†
• Corning Ribbon Machine (1926)
• Quincy Mining Company No. 2 Mine Hoist (1920)
• Bessemer Conversion Engine (ca. 1900)
• Basic-Oxygen Steel Making Vessel (1955)
• Chapin Mine Pump (1893)
• Model T (1908–1927)
• SS Badger Carferry (1952)

Minnesota

• Thermo King© C Refrigeration Unit (1940)

Mississippi

• The Lapeyre Automatic Shrimp Peeling Machine (1979)
• USS Cairo Engine and Boilers (1862)

Missouri

• Watkins Woolen Mill (1868)
• Electro-Motive FT Freight-service Diesel-Electric Locomotive (1939)

Nebraska

• Union Pacific Big Boy 4023 and Centennial 6900 (1944)^†

New Hampshire

• Portsmouth-Kittery Naval Shipbuilding Activity (1774)
• Mount Washington Cog Railway (1869)
• USS Albacore (1953)

New Jersey

• Edison Experimental Recording Phonograph (1877)
• Bergen County Steam Collection
• Roebling 80-ton Wire Rope Machine (1893)
• Great Falls Raceway and Power System (1792)
• Morris Canal (Reaction) Turbine (1850)
• Ringwood Manor Iron Complex (1740)
• Rotating-arm Model-test Facility (1945)

New York

• Link C-3 Flight Trainer (ca. 1935)
• Apollo Lunar Module LM-13 (1972)
• Blood Heat Exchanger (1957)
• Reuleaux Collection Of Kinematic Mechanisms At Cornell University (1882)^†
• Belle Isle Gas Turbine (1949)
• Curtis 5000-kW Vertical Turbine (1903)
• Pratt Institute Power Plant (1887)
• Kinne Water Turbine Collection (1907–1937)^†
• Radio City Music Hall Hydraulically Actuated Stage (1932)
• Holland Tunnel Ventilation System (1920)
• Holly District Heating System (1877)^‡
• Westmoreland Iron Works (1850)
• GE's Ultra High Pressure Apparatus for the Production of Diamonds (1953)
• Boyden Hydraulic Turbines (1871)
• Q-R-S Marking Piano (1912)
• Holly Fire Protection and Water System (1863)^‡
• Interborough Rapid Transit System (Original Line) (1904)
• ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (1915)
• TV Emery Rice Steam Engine (1873)

North Carolina

• Hiwassee Dam Unit 2 Reversible Pump-Turbine (1956)
• Idols Station, Fries Manufacturing & Power Company (1898)
• Reed Gold Mine Ten-Stamp Mill (1895)

Ohio

• Local historyCooper Steam Traction Engine Collection (late 19th century)^†
• Wright Field 5-foot Wind Tunnel (1921)
• Wright Flyer III (1905)
• Xerography (1948)
• Philo 6 Steam-Electric Generating Unit
• ALCOA 50,000-ton Hydraulic Forging Press (1954)
• Owens AR Bottle Machine (1912)
• First Hot Isostatic Processing Vessels (1956)
• Gravimetric Coal Feeder (1957)
• William Tod Rolling-Mill Engine (1914)
• Buckeye Steam Traction Ditcher (1902)
• Hulett Ore Unloaders (1912)
• Cooper-Bessemer Type GMV Integral-Angle Gas Engine-Compressor (1938)
• Icing Research Tunnel, NASA Lewis Research Center (1944)
• Pin-Ticketing Machine (1902)
• Jeep Model MB (1947)
• Steamship William G. Mather Maritime Museum
• Cooper Steam Traction Engine Collection (late 19th c)

Oklahoma

• Ditch Witch DWP Service-Line Trencher (1952)

Oregon

• Howard Hughes Flying Boat, HK-1 (1947)
• Commonwealth Building Heat Pump (1948)

Pennsylvania

• Pierce-Donachy Ventricular Assist Device (1976)
• Shippingport Nuclear Power Station (1958)
• Eddystone Station Unit #1 (1960)
• Kaplan turbine installed in York Haven Dam
• The United States Standard Screw Threads (1864)
• Coolspring Power Museum (1890–1929)^†
• Garfield Thomas Water Tunnel (1949)
• Drake Oil Well (1859)
• Cornwall Iron Furnace (1742)
• Kingsbury thrust bearing installed in Holtwood Dam (1911)
• Fairmount Water Works (1815)
• Chestnut Street Pumping Engine (1913)
• Worthington Horizontal Cross-compound Pumping Engine (1925)
• Monongahela Incline (1870)
• Duquesne Incline (1877)
• Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 Electric Locomotive #4800 (1943)
• Johnstown Incline (1891)
• USS Olympia, Vertical Reciprocating Steam Engines (1892)

Puerto Rico

• Hacienda La Esperanza Sugar Mill Steam Engine (1861)
• Barker Turbine/Hacienda Buena Vista (1853)
• Arecibo Radiotelescope (1963)

Rhode Island

• New England Wireless and Steam Museum^†
• Wilkinson Mill (1810)

Tennessee

• Arnold Air Force Base wind tunnel
• Fusion-welded Test Boiler Drum
• Lookout Mountain Incline Railway

Texas

• Digital Micromirror Device (1996)
• Saturn V Rocket (1967)
• ABACUS II Integrated-Circuit Wire Bonder (1972)
• Greens Bayou Generator Plant (1949)
• Milam High-rise Air Conditioned Building (1928)
• Split-Hopkinson Pressure Bar Apparatus (1962)
• First Ram-Type Blowout Preventer (BOP) (1922)
• Pullman Sleeping Car Glengyle (1911)
• Southern Gas Association-PCRC Analog Facility (1956)
• LeTourneau (1922)
• Meter-type Gas Odorizer (1937)
• Newell Shredder (1969)
• Burton Farmers Gin Mill (1914)
• USS Texas' Reciprocating Steam Engines (1914)
• Hughes Glomar Explorer
• Victoria Dutch Windmill (1840s)

Utah

• Browning Firearms Collection (1878)^†
• EIMCO Rocker Shovel Loader, Model 12B (1938)

Vermont

• American Precision Museum)^†
• Robbins & Lawrence Machine Shop (1846)^‡

Virginia

• Jackson Ferry Shot Tower (1807)
• Colvin Run Mill (ca. 1810)^‡
• Norfolk & Western #611, Class J Steam Locomotive (1950)
• Alligator Amphibian (1940)
• NS Savannah (1962)

Washington

• Boeing 367-80 (1954)
• Georgetown Steam Plant (1906)
• Hanford B Reactor (1944)

Wisconsin

• East Wells (Onieda) Street Power Plant (1918)
• Port Washington Power Plant (1935)
• Vulcan Street Power Plant (1882)
• Multi-Zone Automatic Temperature Control System
• A. O. Smith Automatic Frame Plant (1920)
• Great Northern 2313 — Montana Western 31 Gas-Electric Rail Motorcar (1925)
• Cooperative Fuel Research Engine (1928)
• Milwaukee River Flushing Station (1888)
• Evinrude Outboard Motor (1909)

^†Mechanical engineering heritage collection
^‡Mechanical engineering heritage site

See also

• List of historic civil engineering landmarks
• Mechanical Engineering Heritage (Japan)

References