Boyden Hydraulic Turbine Shaft at Harmony Mills in Cohoes, NY · Franco American Digital Archives

Contributing Institution: Siena College
Repository: New York Heritage Digital Collections
View at Contributing Institution: http://cdm16694.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/siena/id/746
Digitization Status: Digitized / Numérisé(e)
Identifier/Call Number: NEH 4.8
Collection/Part of: Je Me Souviens...I Remember: Presenting and Preserving the Heritage of Upstate New York's Franco-American Communities
Title: en Boyden Hydraulic Turbine Shaft at Harmony Mills in Cohoes, NY
Description: en Photograph of the Boyden Hydraulic Turbine Shaft in the Basement Turbine Room of Harmony Mills (now the Lofts at Harmony Mills)
Author/Creator: Conley, Sean
Date(s): 2018-05-30
Genre: en photographs
Topic & Theme: Work/Travail; Textile Manufacturing/Industrie textile
Geography: Cohoes NY; Cohoes Falls NY
Source Language: English
Library of Congress Subject Heading (LCSH): Hydraulic turbines; Photographs
Répertoire de Vedettes-Matière (RVM): Turbines hydrauliques; Photographies
Copyright Statement and Conditions governing use: Copyright Undetermined; http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/
Conditions Governing Access: Contact contributing institution for information on access.
Existence and Location of Originals: Conley, Sean; Private Collection
Extent: original digital photograph
Materials Specific Details: Digital version published by Digital Scholarship Center at Siena College, 5/30/2018.
Notes: The Boyden turbines installed in Mill No. 3 in 1873 are two of the oldest surviving mill water turbines that remain intact in their original installation. Their design is of the Boyden outward flow type, the first turbine to be manufactured in quantity in the United States and a standard in the textile industry from 1844 to about 1880. They were the largest of the 32 Boyden turbines built by the Holyoke [Massachusetts] Company between 1873 and 1876. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers designated the turbines as National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmarks in 1975 as probably the largest and nearly the most powerful water turbines ever built in the United States to supply direct mechanical power to a manufacturing plant.
Recommended Citation: Please cite the Digital Scholarship Center at Siena College.
State/Province: New York
Country: United States

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