A-Frame Compressor at the Industrial Museum

Certainly one of the largest acquisitions for a Pennsylvania museum is the enormous A­-Frame Compressor recently accepted by the Industrial Museum of the York County Heritage Trust. At a first glance, the machine’s sheer size is overwhelming – it towers thirty feet and weighs more than fifty tons. A closer look reveals the enormous amounts of engineering, labor, and materials...
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1876 Centennial Craze Sweeps into Philadelphia!

This spring marks the one hundred and thirtieth anniversary of the opening of the International Exhibition of Art, Manufactures and Products of the Soil and Mine, better known as the Centennial International Exhibition, staged to mark the one hundredth anniversary of American independence. Opening Day, Wednesday, May 10, 1876, welcome more than one hundred thousand visitors, and by closing day,...
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