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Pennsylvania Iron Works Co.
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| Name | Pennsylvania Iron Works Co. |
| Ortssitz | Philadelphia (Penns.) |
| Straße | Merion Avenue |
| Art des Unternehmens | Maschinenfabrik |
| Anmerkungen | Adresse 1892: Nord-Ecke 50th Street und Merion Avenue; an letzterer sind Gießerei, Maschinenfabrik und Montagewerkstätten (einstöckige Ziegelbauten); benachbart an der 50th Street sind Büro (eingeschossiger Ziegelbau) und Schmiede und Rohrbiegerei (Fachwerkbau); beide durch die Merion Avenue getrennte Teile haben Gleisanschluß an die Pennsylvania RR. 7 Dampfmaschinen (noch als solche aufnehmen!) Auch in Eddystone (Hersteller von Bootsmotoren "Eddystone Globe") genannt. Siehe auch gleichnamige Firma in Chester, 14 Meilen südlich von Philadelphia). 1890/92: Präsident: Wm. L. Elkins; Betriebsleiter: B. W. Grist. Hersteller von Dampfmaschinen (? = "engines"), Maschinen für Seilzugbahnen, Gaswerke und allgemeiner Maschinenbau. Mit Dynamos für Beleuchtung in den Maschinenräumen. |
| Quellenangaben | [VDI 49 (1905) 1943] [Hexamer General Surveys, Volume 27; Map Coll., Free Library of Philadelpia, Plates 2416+2646 (1890+1892)] [Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians (1891) 111] |
| Hinweise | [Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians (1891) 110]: Werksansicht |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1887 |
Erbaut |
| 1890 |
Erweitert 1889 |
| 1892 |
Bau des Bürogebäudes an der Lancaster Avenue |
| 1892 |
Bau des westlichen Teils der Montagewerkstatt |
| Produkt |
ab |
Bem. |
bis |
Bem. |
Kommentar |
| allgemeiner Maschinenbau |
1890 |
[Hexamer Surveys] |
1892 |
[Hexamer Surveys] |
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| Dampfmaschinen |
1892 |
[Ice and refrigeration]: Antr. Kältemaschine |
1901 |
[VDI 49 (1905) 1943] |
1894/1901: Daten in: [VDI 49 (1905) 1943] |
| Dampfpumpen für Kälteanlagen |
1892 |
[Ice and refrigeration 3 (1892) No. 1] |
1901 |
[VDI 49 (1905) 1943] |
1894/1901: Daten in: [VDI 49 (1905) 1943] |
| Kältemaschinen |
1892 |
[Ice and refrigeration 3 (1892) No. 1] |
1901 |
[VDI 49 (1905) 1943] |
1894/1901: Daten in: [VDI 49 (1905) 1943]. Liegende oder stehende Corliss-Maschine mit zwei Schwungrädern, außerhalb davon 2 senkrechte Kältekompressoren auf A-Böcken |
| Maschinen für Gaswerke |
1890 |
[Hexamer Surveys] |
1892 |
[Hexamer Surveys] |
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| Maschinen für Seilzugbahnen |
1890 |
[Hexamer Surveys] |
1892 |
[Hexamer Surveys] |
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| Schiffsdampfmaschinen |
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| Zeit |
Objekt |
Anz. |
Betriebsteil |
Hersteller |
Kennwert |
Wert |
[...] |
Beschreibung |
Verwendung |
| 1890 |
Dampfkessel |
4 |
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unbekannt |
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| Zeit |
gesamt |
Arbeiter |
Angest. |
Lehrl. |
männl. |
weibl. |
Kommentar |
| 1890 |
150 |
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150 - 180 Arbeiter (ca. 12 Jungen). |
| 1892 |
250 |
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ca. 12 Jungen |
| ZEIT | 1891 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | The Pennsylvania Iron Works Company is one of the latest additions to Philadelphia's rapidly and constantly increasing list of industries, having been incorporated under the laws of Pennsylvania in 1886, and although young in years, they have attained a prominence which places them among the leading manufacturing establishments of the city and of the State. Besides being builders of cable railroads, gas works machinery, the latest improved Greene engine, Rankin refrigerating and ice machinery, foundry, pattern and machine work of all kinds and descriptions, they arc also successful contracting engineers. The company have offices at Nos. 9 and 11 Wall street, New York. The general offices aud works are located at fiftieth street and Merion avenue, and form an immense and complete plant, which grouped together form a building containing 324.000 square feet, three stories high, divided into five departments, the dimensions of which are as follows: machine shop, No. 1, 75 x 150 feet; machine shop, No. 2, 75 x 125 feet; erecting shop, 75 x 200 feet; foundry, 100 x 200 feet; ice machine department, 80 x 125 feet - Machine shop, No. 1, on the first floor, is equipped with lathes, planers, boring mills and drill presses for heavy work, and a twenty-ton capacity Sellers' travelling crane; on the second floor there are twenty-five lathes, drill presses and machinery for turning out lighter work, while the third floor is divided into draughting room and pattern shop. Machine shop, No. 2, is fitted up with boring mills, lathes, etc., for finishing wheels or other machinery for the cable system. It also contains a large travelling crane of Sellers manufacture, which has a lifting capacity of thirty tons, with three simultaneous movements, and travels at a speed of 200 feet per minute. The erecting shop also has a fine equipment, consisting of boring mills, pits, etc., for turning out still heavier wheels of largest diameter, and has floor space tor the completion and erection of machinery from the different shops in order to test and determine the perfection of the same. Its equipment also includes another monster travelling crane (Morgan's make 1, which travels the entire
length of the shop at the rate of 200 feet per minute. The foundry contains 20,000 square feet of floor space, and has two of the largest diameter "Colliau" cupolas with a melting capacity of sixty tons per day. It is unquestionably one of the most complete foundries in the city, and it contains every known appliance by which work can be greatly accelerated, easily and readily handled, including cranes similar to that in Machine shop, No. 1, by which castings
are carried directly to the various shops. The most important branch of the company's business is their cable railroad work, in which they have already won a national reputation with the indications that they will soon distance all competitors. They contract for erecting complete cable railroads, making all necessary surveys of the streets, furnishing all the designs and plans and manufacturing all the street work material, wheels, gearing, boilers, engines, winding, driving and rope drive machinery required, in fact, turning over when finished a complete cable railroad, erected and ready for traffic. They also re-design and construct the machinery necessary to increase the power and improve a plant alreadv erected and found inadequate for the purposes intended. A lining the plants constructed by this company are two power stations for the Philadelphia Traction Company, those erected for the West Chicago Railroad Company, corner West Madison and Rochwell streets, Chicago, and two power stations for the Baltimore Traction Company, Baltimore, Md., and are now building a second station for the West Chicago Street Railway Co., at corner of Washington and Desplaines sts. They are now shipping to New York for the Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railroad Company all the material for the new cable road which is in process of construction on Broadway, in that city, and have recently been awarded the contract from the Third Avenue Railroad Company, of New York, for two power stations, one at Sixty-fifth street and Third avenue, and the other at Bayard street and the Bowery. It will require eight months to build the road, and the company is now turning out the machinery as rapidly as possible. There was a spirited contest in the endeavor to receive this monster contract, and firms from all over the United States hat bid for it. A special committee was appointed by the railroad company to investigate the claims put forward by the contestants and they spent three months in careful inquiry and examination, finalley deciding it in favor of the Pennsylvania Iron Works Company, whom they found better equipped for the work than any of their competitors. It is by far the largest contract for cable power stations ever awarded to any company in the world, and its magnitude can be easily understood when we state that the two stations will contain forty-eight 150 horse-power boilers, and the engines will develop 9.000 horse power. There will be seven rope driving wheels, 32 feet in diameter and 7 feet face, and other machinery in like proportions.
The ice machine department has a full complement of the best adapted machinery for the purpose intended, aud here are built the justly celebrated Rankin Patent Absorption Ice Machines, their capacity ranging from 5 to 100 tons per day. These machines, in their general construction, are different from all other devices for ice making or refrigeration, all parts being simple in construction, interchangeable and easy of access, and all objectionable features removed by late improvements. They have no superior in durability and are unexcelled in continuous and reliable working. They are
guaranteed not to be exceeded in the number of consecutive hours of successful operation during a season and to produce as clear, pure ice or as low a temperature as the best power machines of same capacity, at lower cost, because no engine or motive power is used except a small feed pump, which is required to return the strong ammonia water to the still, performing the same duty as the feed pump to a boiler. The machines are now being used largely for the manufacture of ice, and refrigeration for family use and all other purposes, and have proved highly successful in refrigerating breweries, cold storage houses, oil and chemical factories. The company have built forty-five of these machines in the last eighteen months, and are building up a wonderfully prosperous trade in this line of their product, not only in this city, but throughout the United States, while several of the machines have been exported to Cuba and other South American countries, where the refrigeration is used in hospitals for reducing the temperature in wards in which yellow fever cases are confined. Among the local firms which have been supplied with these machines are: J. H. Michener & Co., ham curers; Edson Brothers, produce commission merchants; Gladstone Apartment Company, Rieger & Gretz Brewing Company, Joseph Reiger, brewer, ami many others. We have dwelt largely upon these branches of the business, cable railroad machinery and ice machines; because they rank among our most modern inventions, but the company does
not confine itself to this work alone, as they have other specialties in addition, one of which is the furnishing complete of gas works, and in this they have been as successful as in the branches noted above, as can be testified to by the general excellence and high standard of the gas works they recently built in the Twenty-fifth Ward of this city, the capacity of its production being over 10.000.000 feet per day, which is said to be the largest water gas works
constructed by any company in the United States. As to the steam engines manufactured by this company, sufficient will have been said of them when the claims, so often proven reliable, of the company are repeated. They are built for service, are especially adapted for severe service, are fully tested under steam before leaving works, are fully guaranteed, none but the best materials are used, the workmanship is superior; economy the company's stronghold, superiority their primary consideration; cheapness secondary and prices low when the quality is considered. These claims apply with equal truth and force to all the products of the company, and by living up to their representations to the most minute detail is one reason the firm has attained its wonderful success. They employ from 300 to 350 skilled mechanics, beside keeping continuously employed directly under their control foundries and machine shops engaging the services of at least 1500 men. The officers of the company are: William I., Blkins, Jr., president; C. F. Kohl, vice-president; Howland Coit, secretary and treasurer; B. W. Grist, general manager and engineer; E. A. Moore, assistant engineer. |
| QUELLE | [Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians (1891) 111] |
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