3-028-396 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Modern Mechanical Hercules: How We Harness Steam - The making of the engines that drive cotton-mills: one of the machine-shops, 1909. The firm of John and Edward Wood, of Victoria Foundry, Bolton, '...began to specialise in the manufacture of Corliss engines in 1870, or thereabouts, and their compound and triple-expansion Corliss engines are in use the world over'. From "Illustrated London News", 1909.