[SEL] Bethlehem Steel Gas Engines

[John Culp]

Geoff Hutchings has a Bessemer 70 HP gas blowing engine that came out 
of an Owens-Corning glass plant. About the size of a school bus.

On Nov 13, 2005, at 10:04 PM, Rick Rowlands wrote:

> Gas blowing engines are particularly rare.  Only a few plants used 
> them. Far more common were the steam blowing engines.  Today steam 
> turbo blowers are almost universally used.   There are nine steam 
> blowing engines preserved at various locations in the US and Mexico 
> and two turbo blowers preserved.


John Culp
Bristol, Tennessee, USA