Emmet Mercury Boiler Records

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Emmet Mercury Boiler Records

1920 - 1961

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The Emmet Mercury Boiler Records contains information about General Electric Company and Hartford Electric Light Company's development, installation, and use of William Le Roy Emmet's mercury boiler units. The mercury boiler units used mercury fluid along with steam power to improve cycle efficiency in converting coal or oil to electric power. The collection contains articles, news clippings, reports, instruction manuals, log books, data sheets, photographs, and drawings related to the experimental unit installed at Dutch Point, Connecticut, and the first commercial use of a mercury boiler at the South Meadow Station in Hartford, Connecticut.

4 Cubic feet (11 boxes)

National Museum of American History (U.S.). Archives Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 11663433

National Museum of American History (U.S.). Archives Center

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Stone and Webster.

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Emmet, William Le Roy, 1859-

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Hartford Electric Light Company

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General Electric Company

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Founded 1892. Corporate interests include: Broadcasting; Electric Components; Household Appliances; Lighting Equipment; Motors; Telecommunications; Electromedical Industry. From the description of Technical records. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84865339 Founded 1892. From the description of General Electric Company in Camden, N.J., collection, 1878-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979711 Schenectady, NY. From the description of Electr...

Foster Wheeler Corporation

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Babcock and Wilcox Company.

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Two papers written by e.G. Bailey and W.I. Collins for Babcock and Wilxcox. From the description of Two articles : Development of power from coal and Small and medium size cyclone furnace boilers 1935-1954 [manuscript] (Historical Society of W Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 402690219 ...