April 17, 2024
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION CENTENNIAL 1876 STEREOVIEW CORLISS ENGINE
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Photographs throughout Ad:Offered for auction is an early stereoview by the Centennial Photographic Co, Philadelphia, Pa. The stereoview is from the set CENTENNIAL PHOTOGRAPHIC CO. - INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION - 1876 and titled as follows --NO. 496 CORLISS ENGINE -- FAIRMOUNT PARK - PHILADELPHIA, PA. 1876 INTERNATIONAL CENTENNIAL --The Corliss Centennial Engine was an all-inclusive, specially built rotative beam engine that powered virtually all of the exhibits at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876 through shafts totaling over a mile in length. Switched on by President Ulysses S. Grant and Emperor Pedro II of Brazil, the engine was in public view for the duration of the fair.The engine was configured as two cylinders side-by-side. Each cylinder was bored to 44 inches (1.1 m) with a stroke of 10 feet (3.0 m). The Centennial Engine was 45 feet (14 m) tall, had a flywheel 30 feet (9.1 m) in diameter, and produced 1,400 hp. After the fair it was disassembled and shipped back to Corliss's plant in Providence. Seven years later it was sold and powered a Chicago factory owned by George Pullman until 1910, when it was sold as scrap.This engine became a cultural icon, so much so that to many modern historians the term Corliss Engine (or Corliss Steam Engine) refers to this specific engine and not to the broad class of engines
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