Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 174,136 pages of information and 250,321 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Ehrhardt und Sehmer

From Graces Guide

Ehrhardt & Sehmer, Saarbrücken, Germany

Makers of steam engines, gas engines, high-speed pumps, rolling mill equipment, forging machines

1881 Description and drawings of a compound horizontal engine [1]

1906 Description of a 525 HP blast-furnace gas-engine driving a DC dynamo erected by them for the Cargo Fleet Iron Co. It was an exact replica of one at the Government mines in Heinitz, near Saarbrucken. At Homecourt, in France, they had installed three blast-furnace gas-engines each of 1500 BHP.[2]

See here for photographs of engines, etc.


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