3-028-480 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Modern Mechanical Hercules: How We Harness Steam - Casting a steam-engine Corliss cylinder - 62 inches in diameter, 6-feet stroke, 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.