Mesta Air Compressor

1905/1925

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Mesta Air Compressor
  • Title
  • Mesta Air Compressor
  • Identifier
  • MSP210.B038.I04
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP210.B038.I04
  • Description
  • A Mesta Machine Company 3,000-foot Motor-Driven Two-Stage Air Compressor with four-step control in the Erecting Department. Mesta produced steam-driven air compressors with Corliss valve gears, as well as gas and power-driven compressors with single, three, and four-stage compression. These compressors, equipped with automatic plate valves, were designed to handle pressures more than 1,000 pounds per square inch.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Mesta Machine Company (West Homestead, Pa.)
    Steel industry and trade--Pennsylvania--West Homestead.
    Air-compressors--Pennsylvania--West Homestead.
  • Source
  • Mesta Machine Company Photographs, 1906-1925, MSP 210, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Mesta Machine Company Photographs
  • Rights Information
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