Technologie

1888 · 63886 — Salem Columbiana County OH: Buckeye Engine Company Thos. J. Walton Steam Printing House 1888. Oblong 8vo. 6 86 2 pp. text throughout w/ woodcut engraved borders 4 woodcut-engraved steam engine plates diagrams charts graphs tables text illustrations. Brown publisher’s cloth gilt lettering stamped on front cover decorated endpapers scuffing soot soiling around fore-edges old varnish brush marks to fore-edges front cover still a VG- copy. First edition of this very rare original catalogue/manual for the Buckeye Engine Company’s steam engine and one of the earliest to adapt J.W. Thompson and Nathan Hunt’s groundbreaking high-speed variable automatic cut-off engines featuring a centrifugal governor and flywheel allowing for more controllable power supply primarily for sawmills and logging operations. Simeon & Joel Sharp Milton Davis and Joel Bonsall first began manufacturing steam engines and direct-acting reciprocating muley sawmills by 1851 and in 1870 reorganized the business as the Buckeye Engine Co. by 1888 the company featured over 200 employees sales of nearly $ 500000 and produced steam engines sawmills planing mills shingle machines and more. No copies in Worldcat. Buckeye Engine Company, Thos. J. Walton Steam Printing House, hardcover