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Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmarks are existing artifacts or systems representing a significant mechanical engineering technology. ASME has designated over 280 landmarks through its History and Heritage Landmarks Program since the program began in 1971. Explore our landmarks by designator, topic or world location.
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#36 RL-10 Rocket Engine (1958) #52 Saturn V Rocket (1967) #53 Saturn V Rocket (1967) #54 Saturn V Rocket (1967) #95 Sikorsky VS-300 Helicopter (1939) #102 Atlas Launch Vehicle (1957) #140 Arnold AFB Wind Tunnel (1955) #149 Hydromatic Propeller (ca. 1938) #162 Apollo Space Command Module (1968) #168 Pegasus 3 Engine BS 916 (1960) #170 Advanced Engine Test Facility at Marshall (1964) #171 Voyager Spacecraft Interplanetary Explorers (1972–1977) #178 Boeing 367-80 (1954)* #183 Wright Field 5-foot Wind Tunnel (1921) #189 Montgomery Glider (1883) #210 Link C-3 Flight Trainer (ca. 1935) #218 Apollo Lunar Module LM-13 (1972) #219 Howard Hughes Flying Boat, HK-1 (1947) #224 Wright Flyer III (1905) #238 Grumman Wildcat "Sto-Wing" Wing-folding Mechanism (1942)
#11 Paige Compositor (1877) #68 Edison Experimental Recording Phonograph (1877) #88 Xerography (1948)* #90 IBM 350 RAMAC Disk File (1956) #114 Pitney-Bowes Model M Postage Meter (1920) #160 ABACUS II Integrated-Circuit Wire Bonder (1972) #235 Ottmar Mergenthaler's Square Base Linotype Machine (1886)
#6 Curtis 5000-kW Vertical Turbine (1903) Steam#13 Childs-Irving Hydroelectric Project (1909) Water#17 Edgar Station, Edison Electric Illuminating Co. (1920s) Steam #19 Folsom Power House #1 (1895) Water#24 State Line Generating Unit 1 (1929) Steam#25 Pratt Institute Power Plant (1887) Steam #29 Vulcan Street Power Plant (1882) Water#42 East Wells (Onieda) Street Power Plant (1918) Steam#45 Georgetown Steam Plant (1906) Steam#47 Shippingport Nuclear Power Station (1958) Nuclear #48 Edison 'Jumbo' Engine-driver Dynamo (1882) Steam #49 Marine-type Triple-expansion, Engine-driven Dynamo (1891) Steam#51 Port Washington Power Plant (1935) Steam #56 Rocky River Pumped-storage Hydroelectric Plant (1929) Water #57 Kaplan Turbine (1929) Water #61 Michigan-Lake Superior Power Hydroelectric Plant (1902) Water #67 Hiwassee Dam Unit 2 Reversible Pump-Turbine (1956) Water #99 Idols Station, Fries Manufacturing & Power Company (1898) Water#100 Belle Isle Gas Turbine (1949) IC#109 Geysers Unit 1 (1960) Geothermal#135 Neuchâtel Gas Turbine IC#144 Curtis 500-kW Vertical Turbine (1903) Steam#154 Greens Bayou Generator Plant (1949) Steam #164 New England Wireless and Steam Museum (1964) Steam #175 Bergen County Steam Collection (1987) Steam #204 Kinne Water Turbine Collection (1907 - 1937) Water#226 Eddystone Station Unit #1 (1960) Steam #228 Philo 6 Steam-Electric Generating Unit (1957) Steam
#119 American Precision Museum (1966)#141 Browning Firearms Collection (1878)#157 Pelton Waterwheel Collection (ca. 1880) #164 New England Wireless and Steam Museum (1964) #201 Cooper Steam Traction Engine Collection (1860–1883)#204 Kinne Water Turbine Collection (1907 - 1937)#207 Refrigeration Research Museum (1890 - 1960)#215 Coolspring Power Museum (1890-1929) #232 Reuleaux Collection of Kinematic Mechanisms at Cornell University (1882)#236 Birome Ballpoint Pen Collection (1938-1948)#264 Collection of Engines at the Museum of Engines and Mechanisms
#15 Magma Copper Mine Air Conditioning System (1937) #46 Commonwealth Building Heat Pump (1948) #93 Holland Tunnel Ventilation System (1920) #105 Detroit Edison District Heating System (1903) #122 Holly District Heating System (1877) #155 Milam High-rise Air Conditioned Building (1928) #192 Thermo King© C Refrigeration Unit (1940) #207 Refrigeration Research Museum (1890 - 1960) #244 Multi-Zone Automatic Temperature Control System (1895)
#64 Graue Mill (1852) #74 Anderson-Barngrover Cont. Rotary Pressure Sterilizer (1920) #82 FMC Citrus Juice Extractor (1947)*** #167 Ginaca Pineapple Processing Machine (1911) #174 Crown Cork and Soda Filling Machine (1892) #181 BF Clyde's Cider Mill (1898) #230 The Lapeyre Automatic Shrimp Peeling Machine (1949)
#4 Portsmouth-Kittery Naval Shipbuilding Activity (1690) #30 Wilkinson Mill (1810) #34 Joshua Hendy Iron Works (1906) #37 A. O. Smith Automatic Frame Plant (1920)*** #41 Springfield Armory (1794) #43 Watkins Woolen Mill (1868) #44 Fusion-welded Test Boiler Drum (1930) #63 Jackson Ferry Shot Tower (1807) #69 Creusot Steam Hammer #71 ALCOA 50,000-ton Hydraulic Forging Press (1954) #81 Corning Ribbon Machine (1926) #86 Owens AR Bottle Machine (1912) #89 Wyman-Gordon 50,000-ton Hydraulic Forging Press (1955) #103 First Hot Isostatic Processing Vessels (1956) #120 Robbins & Lawrence Machine Shop (1846) #130 Stirling Water-tube Boilers (1906) #126 Westmoreland Iron Works (1850) #139 Roebling 80-ton Wire Rope Machine (1893) #182 Knight Foundry and Machine Shop (1873)*** #198 GE's Ultra High Pressure Apparatus for the Production of Diamonds (1954) #184 Gravimetric Coal Feeder (1957) #185 Ljungstrom Air Preheater #202 William Tod Rolling-Mill Engine (1914) #214 Colvin Run Mill (ca. 1810) #221 Brandywine River Powder Mills (1803-1921) #234 The United States Standard Screw Threads (1864)
#23 Pit-Cast Jib Crane (1905) #85 PACECO Container Crane #96 Quincy Mining Company No. 2 Mine Hoist (1920) #133 Buckeye Steam Traction Ditcher (1902) #172 Bay City Walking Dredge (1924) #196 Bessemer Conversion Engine (ca. 1900) #199 Hulett Ore Unloaders (1912) #212 EIMCO Rocker Shovel Loader, Model 12B (1938) #222 Ditch Witch® DWP Service-Line Trencher (1952) #242 Split-Hopkinson Pressure Bar Apparatus (1962)
#5 Boyden Hydraulic Turbines (1871) Water #28 Great Falls Raceway and Power System (1792) Water#35 Hacienda La Esperanza Sugar Mill Steam Engine (1861) Steam #38 Morris Canal (Reaction) Turbine (1850)* Water #107 Lowell Power Canal System and Pawtucket Gatehouse (1796) Water#110 Harris-Corliss Steam Engine (1895) Steam #111 Boulton & Watt Rotative Steam Engine Steam #129 Holyoke Water Power System (1859) Water#131 Roosa Master Diesel Fuel-Injection Pump (1947) IC #157 Pelton Waterwheel Collection (ca. 1880) Water#177 Barker Turbine/Hacienda Buena Vista (1853) Steam #188 Garfield Thomas Water Tunnel (1949) Water#208 Fairbanks-Morse Y-VA Engine Diesel (1924) IC#215 Coolspring Power Museum (1890-1929) IC
#7 Saugus Ironworks (1647) #8 Pioneer Oil Refinery California Star Oil Works (1870s) #14 Hanford B Reactor (1944) #33 Ringwood Manor Iron Complex (1740) #40 Drake Oil Well (1859) #84 Reed Gold Mine Ten-Stamp Mill (1895) #104 Basic-Oxygen Steel Making Vessel (1955) #106 Cornwall Iron Furnace (1742) #113 Fairbanks Exploration Company Gold Dredge No.(1927) #118 Reversible Waterwheel & Man Engine #127 Big Brutus Mine Shovel (1962) #159 Nassawango Iron Furnace (1828) #227 First Ram-Type Blowout Preventer (BOP) (1922) #240 Cooper-Bessemer Type GMV Integral-Angle Gas Engine-Compressor (1944) #246 Hughes Two-Cone Drill Bit (1909)
#2 Leavitt-Riedler Pumping Engine** (1894) #3 A.B. Wood Screw Pump (1914) #9 Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Scoop Wheel & Engines (1829) #12 Reynolds-Corliss Pumping Engine (1917) #21 Fairmount Water Works (1815) #59 Chestnut Street Pumping Engine (1913) #70 Newcomen Engine #77 Worthington Horizontal Cross-compound Pumping (1925) #91 Archimedes Screw Pump (1890) #121 Holly Fire Protection and Water System (1863) #124 Chapin Mine Pump #153 Cruquius Pumping Station #194 Kew Bridge Cornish Beam Engines #241 Noria al-Muhammadiyya (1361) #252 Big Surf Waterpark #262 Worthington Steam Pumps from the USS Monitor
#1 Ferries & Cliffhouse Cable Railway Power House (1887) #16 Manitou & Pike's Peak Cog Railway (1891) #18 Mount Washington Cog Railway (1869) #26 Monongahela Incline (1870) #27 Duquesne Incline (1877) #31 Interborough Rapid Trasit System, Original Line (1904) #32 Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Old Main Line (1828) #58 Pioneer Zephyr (1934) #62 Southern Pacific #4294 Cab-in-Front Steam Locomotive (1944) #76 AC Electrification of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (1907) #78 Electro-Motive FT Freight-service Diesel-Electric Locomotive (1939) #83 Penn. RR GG1 Electric Locomotive #4800 (1943) #94 Norfolk & Western #611, Class J Steam Locomotive (1941) #101 St. Charles Avenue Streetcar Line (1835) #115 Disneyland Monorail System (1959)#125 Pullman Sleeping Car Glengyle (1911) #132 Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad Roundhouse (1858) #134 Geared Locomotives of Heisler, Shay, Climax (1872) #137 Texas & Pacific #610 Lima Superpower Steam Locomotive (1927) #147 Baltimore & Ohio #4500, Freight, USRA 2-8-2A (1918) #148 Atlantic Coast Line #1504, USRA 4-6-2A (1919) #156 Lookout Mountain Incline Railway (1895) #176 Union Pacific Big Boy 4023 and Centennial 690 (1941) #180 Johnstown Incline (1891) #195 Bay Area Rapid Transit System (1972) #211 Tokaido Shinkansen (1964) #220 Pilatusbahn (1882) #229 Great Northern 2313 — Montana Western 31 Gas-electric Rail Motorcar (1925) #263 Liverpool Manchester Railway & Site of Rainhill Trials
#39 Experimental Breeder Reactor I (1951) #50 Cooperative Fuel Research Engine (1928) #66 Mount Wilson Observatory, 100-inch Hooker Telescope (1918) #72 Rotating-arm Model-test Facility (1945) #75 Alden Research Laboratory Rotating Boom (1908) #80 Aberdeen Range, Aberdeen Proving Ground (1943) #92 Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (1962) #116 McKinley Climatic Laboratory (1944) #117 Icing Research Tunnel, NASA Lewis Research Center (1944) #128 Vallecitos Boiling Water Reactor (1957) #136 AAR Railroad-wheel Dynamometer (1955) #145 Southern Gas Association-PCRC Analog Facility (1955) #146 National Soil Dynamics Laboratory (1935) #169 Cryogenic Cooling System, Fermilab Tevatron (1983) #187 NASA Ames Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel (1956) #197 David Taylor Model Basin (1939) #216 Arecibo Radiotelescope (1963) #223 Solar Energy and Energy Conversion Laboratory (1954) #237 Eiffel 1903 Drop Test Machine and 1912 Wind Tunnel (1903 & 1912)
#20 Crawler Transporters of Launch Complex 39 (1962) #60 Holt Caterpillar Tractor (1918) #79 Lombard Steam Log Hauler (1910) #108 Jacobs Engine Brake Retarder (1957) #152 Jeep Model MB (1947) #193 Alligator Amphibian (1940) #203 Siegfried Marcus Car #206 Merrill Wheel Balancing System (1945) #231 LeTourneau "Mountain Mover" Scraper (1922) #233 Model T (1908-1927) #256 Thrust SSC Supersonic Car (1997) #284 Duesenberg 4-Wheel Hydraulic Braking System
#10 USS Texas' Reciprocating Steam Engines (1914) #22 USS Olympia, Vertical Reciprocating Steam Engines (1892) #65 Evinrude Outboard Motor (1909) #73 Turbinia #87 NS Savannah (1962)** #97 SS Great Britain #98 SS Jeremiah O'Brien (1943) #112 TV Emery Rice Steam Engine (1873) #143 USS Cairo Engine and Boilers (1862) #186 Steamboat William G. Mather (1925) #191 SS Badger Carferry (1952) #200 Paddle Steamer Uri #205 Peterborough Hydraulic (Canal) Lift Lock (1904) #209 USS Albacore (1953) #239 Hughes Glomar Explorer (1974) #245 John Penn & Sons Oscillating Steam Engine (1841) #247 Belle of Louisville (1914)
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