In 1829, Matthias W. Baldwin, an American inventor and manufacturer, built this vertical steam engine. Standing eighty-four inches in height and eighty-four inches in flywheel diameter, Baldwin’s ...

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Report of the First Annual Exhibition of Ingenuity and Design, held in the City of Philadelphia from the 1st to the 9th of May, 1857, by the Pennsylvania Institute. For the Encouragement of ...