A short history of Rhode IslandGreene, George Washington
History
A short history of Rhode Island
Greene, George Washington
Rhode Island -- History
Woonsocket, | 6,979,900 | 2,533,370 | 9,513,270 | 1.20
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PROVIDENCE CO., | $133,379,634 | $55,750,226 |$189,129,860 |
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Charlestown, | $612,800 | $88,450 | $701,250 | .70
Exeter, | 546,860 | 123,580 | 670,440 | .50
Hopkinton, | 1,326,850 | 438,450 | 1,765,300 | .65
North Kingstown, | 1,869,905 | 969,630 | 2,839,535 | .52
South Kingstown, | 3,002,490 | 1,458,610 | 4,461,100 | .60
Richmond, | 1,006,800 | 257,400 | 1,264,200 | .65
Westerly, | 3,113,800 | 1,379,175 | 4,492,975 | .60
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WASHINGTON CO., | $11,479,505 | $4,715,295 | $16,194,800 |
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WHOLE STATE, | $190,279,473 | $80,135,550 |$270,415,023 |
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[K] Including highway tax.
The Corliss Engine
AT THE INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION.
This engine was furnished by George H. Corliss, of Providence, Rhode
Island, and was especially designed for supplying motive power at
the International Exposition of 1876. This engine is of fourteen
hundred horse-power, but is capable of doing the work of twenty-five
hundred horses if necessary. With its appurtenances it weighs over
seven hundred tons, and furnishes power to all the machinery in the
building. Miles of shafting lead away from it along the aisles from
end to end. Of these are eight main lines of shafting, four on each
side of the central transept where the engine stands, extending
lengthwise. Seven have a speed of one hundred and twenty revolutions,
and one a speed of two hundred and forty revolutions a minute. A line
of shafting is also provided for carrying power into the pump _annex_,
and counter shafts are introduced into the aisles at different points.
The power is transmitted by the _spur-gear_ fly-wheel, thirty feet
in diameter, weighing fifty-six tons; the jack-wheel ten feet in
diameter on the main shafting, which being run under the floors to the
pulleys, the power is transmitted thence to the eight main lines of
shafting above the floor, aggregating more than a mile in length, from
which the machinery of the Exposition derives its power. The engine
makes thirty-six revolutions per minute, and for driving them there
are twenty Corliss boilers capable of developing fourteen hundred
horse-power, and of standing a pressure of one hundred pounds to the
square inch. The platform on which the engine stands is breast high.
From this, on either side, a long iron staircase mounts to the top of
the A frames, where narrow walks with brass railings lead about among
the moving masses aloft in the air. It is five times a man's height
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