
The Hamilton Museum of Steam and Technology
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
November 12, 2010, 16:45 EST
© 2010 Francis Fougere, All Rights Reserved.
The only surviving facility of its time in North America, the museum is a National Historic Site and a Civil and Power Engineering Landmark. These Canadian-made engines are the oldest surviving examples in the nation.
Thomas Keefer, one of Canada's most noted engineers, selected two independently-operating 70-ton Woolf Compound Rotative Beam Engines to pump Lake Ontario Water to a reservoir atop the Niagara Escarpment to be later carried though pipes to the growing city of Hamilton below. The engines were built by the Dundas Iron and Brass Foundry.
Lat: 43° 15' 23.87" N
Long: 80° 47' 19.54" W
Elevation: 74 meters
Precision is: High. Pinpoints the exact spot.







