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I believe this is an early air compressor exhibited at the most excellent Steam Giants of Brede Waterworks museum, Rye, East Sussex.
The museum has many exhibits including a preserved nuclear bunker which would have operated as a water distribution control centre in the event of thermo-nuclear conflict.
Air Compressor Converted to Silent Running, for Cortina MK4 projects for air tools, paint and just blowing up tyer's
Mukilteo, Washington
The Mukilteo Light Station began operation on March 1, 1906. The reknowned lighthouse architect Carl W. Leick designed the Victorian-style lighthouse, with its 38-foot octagonal tower and the attached building for the compressor for the fog horn. The keepers’ houses were built at the same time, as well as the pump house and windmill. The entire light station cost about $27,000.
The lighthouse was equipped with an oil lamp, which had to be refilled every three hours, and a rotating lens, which had to be wound every three hours using a clockwork mechanism. Oil was also used for the compressor for the fog horn, which protruded from the rear of the building. The present lens is a fourth order Fresnel lens, made in France in 1852 and brought to Mulkiteo when the lighthouse was converted to electricity in 1927. The light has a flash pattern of the two seconds on, three seconds off, a signal unique to Mukilteo. Now totally automated, the light and the foghorn continue to be
maintained by the Cost Guard as working aids to navigation.
The lighthouse began operation under the US Light House
Establishment. The US Coast Guard took over operation of all
Lighthouses in 1939. The Mukilteo Light Statiopn was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. In 2001, the US Coast Guard transferred the Mukilteo Light Station property to the City of Mukilteo.
Mulkiteo Light
-The lighthouse has been in continuous operation since 1906.
-The lighthouse is 38 feet tall and is one of the shortest in the United States
-The flash pattern is: 2 seconds ON, 3 seconds OFF
-The Mukilteo Light is maintained by the US Coast Guard
-The light was converted from coal oil to electricity in 1927. It was fully automated in 1979
-The lens is a fourth order Fresnel lens (height 28 inches) built in Paris, France in 1852
-The light is powered by a 150-watt halogen bulb. It is on 24/7
-The light can be seen from about 10 miles away on a clear night.
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In the Compressor Room for the big Airship Hanger at the Tillamook Air Museum. This would have been used to fill the Airships with Helium, during World War II.
An artsy shot of the rusted casing of this air compressor, which still has motor and hoses intact but likely needs a few replacement parts...
Robert Gardner started a one-room company building governors for steam engines in Quincy, Illinois back in 1859. It eventually merged with Denver Rock Drill Manuf Co in 1927.
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Foto presa amb una Voigtländer Vito IIa, fabricada entre 1955 i 1957; Color Skopar f3,5/50mm; pel·licula Fomapan 100.
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Picture taken with a Voigtländer Vito IIa, made c.1955-1957; Color-Skopar f3,5/50mm; Fomapan 100 film.
I thought the chimney of the Compressor House at the Geevor Mine really stood out against the blue sky. A very interesting place to visit. Pendeen Lighthouse is in the background.
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Night view of a methane compressor station in a nearly defunct oil field between Montezuma Creek and Aneth, San Juan County, Utah.
In the Compressor Room for the big Airship Hanger at the Tillamook Air Museum. This would have been used to fill the Airships with Helium, during World War II.
The Teesside works of the BSC employed this extraordinary mobile compressor loco using compressed air transmission. Identified as 'MC1', it was one of three converted in-house, using the frames of former steelworks four-coupled locos built by Peckett and Hawthorn Leslie. 'MC1' was a 1958 conversion from Peckett 'W4' Class 0-4-0 saddle tank (W/No.668 built in 1897) originally supplied new to Bolckow Vaughan & Co, South Bank Steel, and was still in use as a compressor on 28th October 1977.
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