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#1 Ferries & Cliffhouse Cable Railway Power House (1887) #2 Leavitt-Riedler Pumping Engine** (1894) #3 A.B. Wood Screw Pump (1914) #4 Portsmouth-Kittery Naval Shipbuilding Activity (1714) #5 Boyden Hydraulic Turbines (1871) #6 Curtis 5000-kW Vertical Turbine (1903) #7 Saugus Ironworks (1647) #8 Pioneer Oil Refinery California Star Oil Works (1876) #9 Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Scoop Wheel & Engines (1829) #10 USS Texas' Reciprocating Steam Engines (1914) #11 Paige Compositor (1877) #12 Reynolds-Corliss Pumping Engine (1917) #13 Childs-Irving Hydroelectric Project (1909) #14 Hanford B Reactor (1944) #15 Magma Copper Mine Air Conditioning System (1937) #16 Manitou & Pike's Peak Cog Railway (1891) #17 Edgar Station, Edison Electric Illuminating Co. (1925) #18 Mount Washington Cog Railway (1869) #19 Folsom Power House #1 (1895) #20 Crawler Transporters of Launch Complex 39 (1962) #21 Fairmount Water Works (1815) #22 USS Olympia, Vertical Reciprocating Steam Engines (1892) #23 Pit-Cast Jib Crane (1905) #24 State Line Generating Unit 1 (1929)*** #25 Pratt Institute Power Plant (1887)
#26 Monongahela Incline (1870) #27 Duquesne Incline (1877) #28 Great Falls Raceway and Power System (1792) #29 Vulcan Street Power Plant (1882) #30 Wilkinson Mill (1810) #31 Interborough Rapid Trasit System, Original Line (1904) #32 Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Old Main Line (1828) #33 Ringwood Manor Iron Complex (1740) #34 Joshua Hendy Iron Works (1906) #35 Hacienda La Esperanza Sugar Mill Steam Engine (1861) #36 RL-10 Rocket Engine (1958) #37 A. O. Smith Automatic Frame Plant (1920)*** #38 Morris Canal (Reaction) Turbine (1850)* #39 Experimental Breeder Reactor I (1951) #40 Drake Oil Well (1859) #41 Springfield Armory (1794) #42 East Wells (Onieda) Street Power Plant (1918) #43 Watkins Woolen Mill (1868) #44 Fusion-welded Test Boiler Drum (1930) #45 Georgetown Steam Plant (1906) #46 Commonwealth Building Heat Pump (1948) #47 Shippingport Nuclear Power Station (1958) #48 Edison 'Jumbo' Engine-driver Dynamo (1882) #49 Marine-type Triple-expansion, Engine-driven Dynamo (1891) #50 Cooperative Fuel Research Engine (1928)
#51 Port Washington Power Plant (1935) #52 Saturn V Rocket (1967) #53 Saturn V Rocket (1967) #54 Saturn V Rocket (1967) #55 Blood Heat Exchanger (1957) #56 Rocky River Pumped-storage Hydroelectric Plant (1929) #57 Kaplan Turbine (1929) #58 Pioneer Zephyr (1934) #59 Chestnut Street Pumping Engine (1913) #60 Holt Caterpillar Tractor (1918) #61 Michigan-Lake Superior Power Hydroelectric Plant (1902) #62 Southern Pacific #4294 Cab-in-Front Steam Locomotive (1944) #63 Jackson Ferry Shot Tower (1807) #64 Graue Mill (1852) #65 Evinrude Outboard Motor (1909) #66 Mount Wilson Observatory, 100-inch Hooker Telescope (1918) #67 Hiwassee Dam Unit 2 Reversible Pump-Turbine (1956) #68 Edison Experimental Recording Phonograph (1877) #69 Creusot Steam Hammer (1876) #70 Newcomen Engine (1712) #71 ALCOA 50,000-ton Hydraulic Forging Press (1954) #72 Rotating-arm Model-test Facility (1945) #73 Turbinia (1897) #74 Anderson-Barngrover Cont. Rotary Pressure Sterilizer (1920) #75 Alden Research Laboratory Rotating Boom (1908)
#76 AC Electrification of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (1907) #77 Worthington Horizontal Cross-compound Pumping (1925) #78 Electro-Motive FT Freight-service Diesel-Electric Locomotive (1939) #79 Lombard Steam Log Hauler (1910) #80 Aberdeen Range, Aberdeen Proving Ground (1943) #81 Corning Ribbon Machine (1926) #82 FMC Citrus Juice Extractor (1947)*** #83 Penn. RR GG1 Electric Locomotive #4800 (1943) #84 Reed Gold Mine Ten-Stamp Mill (1895) #85 PACECO Container Crane (1959) #86 Owens AR Bottle Machine (1903) #87 NS Savannah (1962)** #88 Xerography (1948)* #89 Wyman-Gordon 50,000-ton Hydraulic Forging Press (1955) #90 IBM 350 RAMAC Disk File (1956) #91 Archimedes Screw Pump (1890) #92 Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (1962) #93 Holland Tunnel Ventilation System (1920) #94 Norfolk & Western #611, Class J Steam Locomotive (1941) #95 Sikorsky VS-300 Helicopter (1939) #96 Quincy Mining Company No. 2 Mine Hoist (1920) #97 SS Great Britain (1843) #98 SS Jeremiah O'Brien (1943) #99 Idols Station, Fries Manufacturing & Power Company (1898) #100 Belle Isle Gas Turbine (1949)
#101 St. Charles Avenue Streetcar Line (1835) #102 Atlas Launch Vehicle (1957) #103 First Hot Isostatic Processing Vessels (1956) #104 Basic-Oxygen Steel Making Vessel (1955) #105 Detroit Edison District Heating System (1903) #106 Cornwall Iron Furnace (1742) #107 Lowell Power Canal System and Pawtucket Gatehouse (1796) #108 Jacobs Engine Brake Retarder (1957) #109 Geysers Unit 1 (1960) #110 Harris-Corliss Steam Engine (1895) #111 Boulton & Watt Rotative Steam Engine (1785) #112 TV Emery Rice Steam Engine (1873) #113 Fairbanks Exploration Company Gold Dredge No.(1927) #114 Pitney-Bowes Model M Postage Meter (1920) #115 Disneyland Monorail System (1959) #116 McKinley Climatic Laboratory (1944) #117 Icing Research Tunnel, NASA Lewis Research Center (1944) #118 Reversible Waterwheel & Man Engine (1837) #119 American Precision Museum (1966) #120 Robbins & Lawrence Machine Shop (1846) #121 Holly Fire Protection and Water System (1863) #122 Holly District Heating System (1877) #123 Kingsbury Thrust Bearing (1911)* #124 Chapin Mine Pump (1893) #125 Pullman Sleeping Car Glengyle (1911)
#126 Westmoreland Iron Works (1850) #127 Big Brutus Mine Shovel (1962) #128 Vallecitos Boiling Water Reactor (1957) #129 Holyoke Water Power System (1859) #130 Stirling Water-tube Boilers (1906) #131 Roosa Master Diesel Fuel-Injection Pump (1947) #132 Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad Roundhouse (1858) #133 Buckeye Steam Traction Ditcher (1902) #134 Geared Locomotives of Heisler, Shay, Climax (1872) #135 Neuchâtel Gas Turbine (1939) #136 AAR Railroad-wheel Dynamometer (1955) #137 Texas & Pacific #610 Lima Superpower Steam Locomotive (1927) #138 ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (1915) #139 Roebling 80-ton Wire Rope Machine (1893) #140 Arnold AFB Wind Tunnel (1955) #141 Browning Firearms Collection (1878) #142 Pierce-Donachy Ventricular Assist Device (1973) #143 USS Cairo Engine and Boilers (1862) #144 Curtis 500-kW Vertical Turbine (1903) #145 Southern Gas Association-PCRC Analog Facility (1955) #146 National Soil Dynamics Laboratory (1935) #147 Baltimore & Ohio #4500, Freight, USRA 2-8-2A (1918) #148 Atlantic Coast Line #1504, USRA 4-6-2A (1919) #149 Hydromatic Propeller (ca. 1938) #150 Pin-Ticketing Machine (1902)
#151 Victoria Dutch Windmill (1870) #152 Jeep Model MB (1943) #153 Cruquius Pumping Station (1849) #154 Greens Bayou Generator Plant (1949) #155 Milam High-rise Air Conditioned Building (1928) #156 Lookout Mountain Incline Railway (1895) #157 Pelton Waterwheel Collection (ca. 1880) #158 Fresno Scraper (1883) #159 Nassawango Iron Furnace (1828) #160 ABACUS II Integrated-Circuit Wire Bonder (1972) #161 Q-R-S Marking Piano (1912) #162 Apollo Space Command Module (1968) #163 Meter-type Gas Odorizer (1937) #164 New England Wireless and Steam Museum (1964) #165 Old Mill in Nantucket (1746) #166 Milwaukee River Flushing Station (1888) #167 Ginaca Pineapple Processing Machine (1911) #168 Pegasus 3 Engine BS 916 (1960) #169 Cryogenic Cooling System, Fermilab Tevatron (1983) #170 Advanced Engine Test Facility at Marshall (1964) #171 Voyager Spacecraft Interplanetary Explorers (1972–1977) #172 Bay City Walking Dredge (1924) #173 Burton Farmers Gin Mill (1914) #174 Crown Cork and Soda Filling Machine (1892) #175 Bergen County Steam Collection (1987)
#176 Union Pacific Big Boy 4023 and Centennial 690 (1941) #177 Barker Turbine/Hacienda Buena Vista (1853) #178 Boeing 367-80 (1954)* #179 Newell Shredder (1969) #180 Johnstown Incline (1891) #181 BF Clyde's Cider Mill (1898) #182 Knight Foundry and Machine Shop (1873)*** #183 Wright Field 5-foot Wind Tunnel (1921) #184 Gravimetric Coal Feeder (1957) #185 Ljungstrom Air Preheater (1920) #186 Steamship William G. Mather (1925) #187 NASA Ames Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel (1956) #188 Garfield Thomas Water Tunnel (1949) #189 Montgomery Glider (1883) #190 Hart Parr Tractor (1903) #191 SS Badger Carferry (1952) #192 Thermo King© C Refrigeration Unit (1940) #193 Alligator Amphibian (1940) #194 Kew Bridge Cornish Beam Engines (1820-1869) #195 Bay Area Rapid Transit System (1972) #196 Bessemer Conversion Engine (ca. 1900) #197 David Taylor Model Basin (1939) #198 GE's Ultra High Pressure Apparatus for the Production of Diamonds (1954) #199 Hulett Ore Unloaders (1912) #200 Paddle Steamer Uri (1901)
#201 Cooper Steam Traction Engine Collection (1860–1883) #202 William Tod Rolling-Mill Engine (1914) #203 Siegfried Marcus Car (1875) #204 Kinne Water Turbine Collection (1907 - 1937) #205 Peterborough Hydraulic (Canal) Lift Lock (1904) #206 Merrill Wheel Balancing System (1945) #207 Refrigeration Research Museum (1890 - 1960) #208 Fairbanks-Morse Y-VA Engine Diesel (1924) #209 USS Albacore (1953) #210 Link C-3 Flight Trainer (ca. 1935) #211 Tokaido Shinkansen (1964) #212 EIMCO Rocker Shovel Loader, Model 12B (1938) #213 George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering (1888) #214 Colvin Run Mill (ca. 1810) #215 Coolspring Power Museum (1890-1929) #216 Arecibo Radiotelescope (1963) #217 Radio City Music Hall Hydraulically Actuated Stage (1932) #218 Apollo Lunar Module LM-13 (1972) #219 Howard Hughes Flying Boat, HK-1 (1947) #220 Pilatusbahn (1882) #221 Brandywine River Powder Mills (1803-1921) #222 Ditch Witch® DWP Service-Line Trencher (1952) #223 Solar Energy and Energy Conversion Laboratory (1954) #224 Wright Flyer III (1905) #225 Rumely Companies' Agricultural Products (1853)
#226 Eddystone Station Unit #1 (1960) #227 First Ram-Type Blowout Preventer (BOP) (1922) #228 Philo 6 Steam-Electric Generating Unit (1957) #229 Great Northern 2313 — Montana Western 31 Gas-electric Rail Motorcar (1925) #230 The Lapeyre Automatic Shrimp Peeling Machine (1949) #231 LeTourneau "Mountain Mover" Scraper (1922) #232 Reuleaux Collection of Kinematic Mechanisms at Cornell University (1882) #233 Model T (1908-1927) #234 The United States Standard Screw Threads (1864) #235 Ottmar Mergenthaler's Square Base Linotype Machine (1886) #236 Birome Ballpoint Pen Collection (1938-1948) #237 Eiffel 1903 Drop Test Machine and 1912 Wind Tunnel (1903 & 1912) #238 Grumman Wildcat "Sto-Wing" Wing-folding Mechanism (1942) #239 Hughes Glomar Explorer (1974) #240 Cooper-Bessemer Type GMV Integral-Angle Gas Engine-Compressor (1944) #241 Noria al-Muhammadiyya (1361) #242 Split-Hopkinson Pressure Bar Apparatus (1962) #243 Digital Micromirror Device (1996) #244 Multi-Zone Automatic Temperature Control System (1895) #245 John Penn & Sons Oscillating Steam Engine (1841) #246 Hughes Two-Cone Drill Bit (1909) #247 Belle of Louisville (1914) #248 Southern Railway Spencer Shops (1896) #249 Sholes & Glidden 'Type Writer' (1873) #250 Mr. Charlie Oil Drilling Rig (1953)
#251 19th Century Collection of Textile Machinery and Tools #252 Big Surf Waterpark #253 Titan Crane #254 Batavia Windmills #255 Apollo Space Suit #256 Thrust SSC Supersonic Car #257 Northern Pacific Rotary Snow Plow #2 #258 George Eastman House: Technology Collection #259 Funicular Giessbach #260 Pratt & Whitney R-1340 Wasp Radial Engine #261 Stereolithography #262 Worthington Steam Pumps from the USS Monitor #263 Liverpool Manchester Railway & Site of Rainhill Trials #264 Collection of Engines at the Museum of Engines and Mechanisms #265 Pratt & Whitney Single Crystal Turbine Blade #266 Carpet Tufting Apparatus #267 Janney Coupler #268 Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory #269 Johannes Gutenberg’s System of Movable Type #270 The Thurston Collection of Laboratory Artifacts at Cornell University #271 The Antikythera Mechanism #272 West Point Foundry #273 Westinghouse Automatic Air Brake#274 Perkins Vapor-Compression Cycle for Refrigeration #275 Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire and on Machines Fitted to Develop That Power
#276 Standardized Steam Property Tables #277 Finite Element Analysis - June 2022 #278 Gutenberg’s System of Movable Type #279 Crocodile Locomotive Ce 6/8 II #280 Lensometer #281 Aeronautica Macchi MC.72 Seaplane#282 Bently Nevada’s Non-Contacting Eddy Current Sensors #283 Ottawa Gas Turbine Combined Cycle Power Plant, 1967
Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmarks are existing artifacts or systems representing a significant mechanical engineering technology. ASME has designated over 270 landmarks through its History and Heritage Landmarks Program since the program began in 1971. Explore our landmarks by designator, topic or world location.
The History and Heritage Committee, which administers this program under the Center for Public Awareness, welcomes any corrections or changes that readers discover. Contact the History and Heritage Committee, c/o ASME Strategic Communications, Two Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016; 212-591-7000; FAX 212-591-8676, or by contacting the H&H staff liaison.
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