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10 Mechanical Engineering Accpomplishments
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Mount Washngton Cog Railway
This was the worlds first mountain climbing cog railway. It runs for 3mi(4.8km) and uses the Marsh Rack System. -
Monogahela Incline
This is the oldest continuously incline railway in the USA. This incline was built for labor of the industrial based city of Pittsburgh. -
Vulcan Street Plant
This plant was a hydroelectric plant that was very significant because of its advancements of Edison's electric light technology and electric generators. -
Turbina
This was the first steam turbine-powered steamship. It set the standard for the next coming years with steam powered ships because of the speed it could go at. -
Michigan Lake Superior Power Hydroelectric Plant
This is one of the longest hydroelectric powerplants in the world lasting 1340 feet long. It is capable of generating 25 to 30 megawatts. -
Nigel Gresley
Nigel Gresley was huge to the mechanical engineering movement because of the advancements in Steam Locomotives. He made new technologies for for many new different steam passenger trains. The high speed steam locomotives probably would not be there today without Nigel Gresley. -
Wood Screw Pump
A. Baldwin Wood built the Wood Screw Pump for the city of New Orleans because they had a terrible drainage system. This device was based off an axial flow throughout the whole machine. -
Steamship William G. Mather Maritime
Its development date was 1925 but was not used intensely until WWII. This is now a retired steamship that, in its day, carried steel to the allied forces. One of the first Great Lake Vessels equipt with radar and the first to have an automated boiler system. -
B Reactor
This was the first large scale nuclear reactor ever built. It started in the city of Richland, Washington. It was made to prodecue plutonium-239 by neutorn activation. This was all for the production and advancement of the US's nuclear weapons during WWII. -
SM-65 Atlas
This was the first intercontenental ballistic missle deployed by the US. This was made for new signaling throughout the world. On its first flight it orbited the earth. -
Shippingport Atomic Power Station
This was the worlds first full scale atomic electric power plant made for peacetime uses. Uranium was the main product used in this operation.