Frick Company "Eclipse" Portable Steam Engine
date: label: date made
content: 1877
name: label: maker
content: Frick Company
notes: label: Description
content: This portable steam engine, named the “Eclipse,” was built by the Frick Company in 1877. The portable steam engine was a self-propelling, steam-powered mechanism that could be utilized in fields, factories, and mills of all kinds, increasing product output immensely. This specific engine powered a sawmill from 1877 to 1902 and a chair factory from 1903 to 1949 when it was retired in running condition. The Frick Company donated the engine to the Smithsonian Institution in 1959 to provide more insight into the development of agricultural machinery during the late nineteenth century.
label: Description
content: The Frick Company was founded in 1852 by George Frick, an inventor and engineer. Frick’s invention of quality products in the emerging field of mechanized agriculture soon led the company became a leader in the agricultural and refrigeration industries in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
label: Location
content: Currently on loan
label: Location
content: Currently not on view (part)
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Waynesboro
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Frick Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ER.58A9
label: accession number
content: 222811
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Frick eclipse portable steam engine