An Immense Steam-Engine.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 16, 17 June 1885, Page 3

An Immense Steam-Engine.

The largest Htatibnary engine m the world is said to "be* iti '-Leliujh; C 0.,. Pa., at the famous z«nc inine«t. «t Fridensvitfe. The engine, is known as the, " Pwaident," and is how run with sixteen boilers, i«. of 5000 hovse-poweiV : With -douMe the number of boilers' the capacity of the engine is 10,000 horse-power. There is no pumping engine m the /jfe.orld that can be compared with the monster. At ey,etyr,e volution' of its ponderous wheels. it throws.out a little, river. The .nniiibev of ihe gallons of water cawed etrerjp minute is 17,500. The engine worfiS with a- smoothness that is astonishing 'and th'eW- is- riot the slightest j»r observahle m any of its parts m the engine house. Previous to March, 1884. it had been idle for a period of *even and a half yoaiN. Since then it has been run day and night without a hitch: T wen tyr eight tons of coal "aYe coh/umtul by the boilers every day. The engine, aa it is;g«neraUy.; : run, , makes seven revolutions per minute, but .the' speed can be increased to fourteen revolutions. The driving-wheels are thirty -fiVe feetlti diameter awl weigh forty tonseajjji. The sweep rod is forty feet long, the cylinder 110 inches m diameter, and the piston rod 18 inches diameter, with a leo-foot stroke. . ..-..■■