The Pittsburgh Steam Engine Company, originally known as the Pittsburgh Engine Company,[1] was a company founded in 1811[2] by Oliver Evans to manufacture high-pressure steam engines.
History
This company opened for business shortly after Fulton's low-pressure New Orleans left Pittsburgh on her maiden voyage as the first steamboat west of the Appalachian Mountains. It was located at the corner of Front Street and Redoubt Alley in Downtown Pittsburgh, just blocks from the Monongahela wharf.
In addition to engines, the company made other heavy equipment and iron castings, including anchors on ships used by Commodore Perry in the War of 1812 on Lake Erie.[3]
The company also manufactured rolling mills for the iron industry.
References
- ^ Latrobe, Benjamin Henry; Van Horne, John C; Formwalt, Lee W (1984–1988). The correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Maryland Historical Society. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 513.
- ^ Meyer, David R (2006). Networked machinists : high-technology industries in Antebellum America. Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 44. ISBN 978-0-8018-8471-9. OCLC 65340979.
- ^ Armstrong, John (1816). The Pittsburgh town & country almanac, for rogues and honest folks (almanac). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: R. & J. Patterson. ISBN 9780801884719. OCLC 15448103.
