Landmark Locations
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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.
Landmarks by Location (US)
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#1 Ferries & Cliffhouse Cable Railway Power House (1887) #8 Pioneer Oil Refinery California Star Oil Works (1870s) #19 Folsom Power House #1 (1895) #34 Joshua Hendy Iron Works (1906) #60 Holt Caterpillar Tractor (1918) #62 Southern Pacific #4294 Cab-in-Front Steam Locomotive (1944) #66 Mount Wilson Observatory, 100-inch Hooker Telescope (1918) #74 Anderson-Barngrover Cont. Rotary Pressure Sterilizer (1920) #90 IBM 350 RAMAC Disk File (1956) #91 Archimedes Screw Pump (1890) #92 Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (1962) #98 SS Jeremiah O'Brien (1943) #102 Atlas Launch Vehicle (1957) #109 Geysers Unit 1 (1960) #115 Disneyland Monorail System (1959) #128 Vallecitos Boiling Water Reactor (1957) #134 Geared Locomotives of Heisler, Shay, Climax (1872) #157 Pelton Waterwheel Collection (ca. 1880) #158 Fresno Scraper (1883) #171 Voyager Spacecraft Interplanetary Explorers (1972–1977) #182 Knight Foundry and Machine Shop (1873)*** #187 NASA Ames Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel (1956) #189 Montgomery Glider (1883) #195 Bay Area Rapid Transit System (1972) #235 Ottmar Mergenthaler's Square Base Linotype Machine (1886)
#11 Paige Compositor (1877) #56 Rocky River Pumped-storage Hydroelectric Plant (1929) #76 AC Electrification of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (1907) #108 Jacobs Engine Brake Retarder (1957) #114 Pitney-Bowes Model M Postage Meter (1920) #131 Roosa Master Diesel Fuel-Injection Pump (1947) #149 Hydromatic Propeller (ca. 1938) #181 BF Clyde's Cider Mill (1898)
#260 Pratt & Whitney R-1340 Wasp Radial Engine
#265 Pratt & Whitney Single Crystal Turbine Blade
#260 Pratt & Whitney R-1340 Wasp Radial Engine
#265 Pratt & Whitney Single Crystal Turbine Blade
#12 Reynolds-Corliss Pumping Engine (1917) #20 Crawler Transporters of Launch Complex 39 (1962) #36 RL-10 Rocket Engine (1958) #54 Saturn V Rocket (1967) #82 FMC Citrus Juice Extractor (1947)*** #116 McKinley Climatic Laboratory (1944) #148 Atlantic Coast Line #1504, USRA 4-6-2A (1919) #162 Apollo Space Command Module (1968) #172 Bay City Walking Dredge (1924) #208 Fairbanks-Morse Y-VA Engine Diesel (1924) #223 Solar Energy and Energy Conversion Laboratory (1954)
#9 Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Scoop Wheel & Engines (1829) #32 Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Old Main Line (1828) #80 Aberdeen Range, Aberdeen Proving Ground (1943) #147 Baltimore & Ohio #4500, Freight, USRA 2-8-2A (1918) #159 Nassawango Iron Furnace (1828) #174 Crown Cork and Soda Filling Machine (1892) #197 David Taylor Model Basin (1939)
#2 Leavitt-Riedler Pumping Engine** (1894) #7 Saugus Ironworks (1647) #17 Edgar Station, Edison Electric Illuminating Co. (1920s) #41 Springfield Armory (1794) #75 Alden Research Laboratory Rotating Boom (1908) #89 Wyman-Gordon 50,000-ton Hydraulic Forging Press (1955) #107 Lowell Power Canal System and Pawtucket Gatehouse (1796) #129 Holyoke Water Power System (1859) #165 Old Mill in Nantucket (1746)
#251 19th Century Collection of Textile Machinery and Tools#280 Lensometer
#251 19th Century Collection of Textile Machinery and Tools#280 Lensometer
#48 Edison 'Jumbo' Engine-driver Dynamo (1882) #49 Marine-type Triple-expansion, Engine-driven Dynamo (1891) #61 Michigan-Lake Superior Power Hydroelectric Plant (1902) #81 Corning Ribbon Machine (1926) #95 Sikorsky VS-300 Helicopter (1939) #96 Quincy Mining Company No. 2 Mine Hoist (1920) #104 Basic-Oxygen Steel Making Vessel (1955) #105 Detroit Edison District Heating System (1903) #124 Chapin Mine Pump (1893) #138 ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (1915) #191 SS Badger Carferry (1952) #196 Bessemer Conversion Engine (ca. 1900) #207 Refrigeration Research Museum (1890 - 1960) #233 Model T (1908-1927) #238 Grumman Wildcat "Sto-Wing" Wing-folding Mechanism (1942)
#28 Great Falls Raceway and Power System (1792) #33 Ringwood Manor Iron Complex (1740) #38 Morris Canal (Reaction) Turbine (1850)* #68 Edison Experimental Recording Phonograph (1877) #72 Rotating-arm Model-test Facility (1945) #139 Roebling 80-ton Wire Rope Machine (1893) #175 Bergen County Steam Collection (1987)
#268 Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
#268 Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
#5 Boyden Hydraulic Turbines (1871) #6 Curtis 5000-kW Vertical Turbine (1903) #25 Pratt Institute Power Plant (1887) #31 Interborough Rapid Trasit System, Original Line (1904) #55 Blood Heat Exchanger (1957) #93 Holland Tunnel Ventilation System (1920) #100 Belle Isle Gas Turbine (1949) #112 TV Emery Rice Steam Engine (1873) #121 Holly Fire Protection and Water System (1863) #122 Holly District Heating System (1877) #126 Westmoreland Iron Works (1850) #161 Q-R-S Marking Piano (1912) #198 GE's Ultra High Pressure Apparatus for the Production of Diamonds (1954) #204 Kinne Water Turbine Collection (1907 - 1937) #210 Link C-3 Flight Trainer (ca. 1935) #217 Radio City Music Hall Hydraulically Actuated Stage (1932) #218 Apollo Lunar Module LM-13 (1972) #232 Reuleaux Collection of Kinematic Mechanisms at Cornell University (1882)#258 George Eastman House: Technology Collection#270 The Thurston Collection of Laboratory Artifacts at Cornell University#272 West Point Foundry
#71 ALCOA 50,000-ton Hydraulic Forging Press (1954) #86 Owens AR Bottle Machine (1912) #88 Xerography (1948)* #103 First Hot Isostatic Processing Vessels (1956) #117 Icing Research Tunnel, NASA Lewis Research Center (1944) #133 Buckeye Steam Traction Ditcher (1902) #150 Pin-Ticketing Machine (1902) #152 Jeep Model MB (1947) #183 Wright Field 5-foot Wind Tunnel (1921) #184 Gravimetric Coal Feeder (1957) #186 Steamboat William G. Mather (1925) #199 Hulett Ore Unloaders (1912) #201 Cooper Steam Traction Engine Collection (1860–1883) #202 William Tod Rolling-Mill Engine (1914) #224 Wright Flyer III (1905) #228 Philo 6 Steam-Electric Generating Unit (1957) #240 Cooper-Bessemer Type GMV Integral-Angle Gas Engine-Compressor (1944)
#21 Fairmount Water Works (1815) #22 USS Olympia, Vertical Reciprocating Steam Engines (1892) #26 Monongahela Incline (1870) #27 Duquesne Incline (1877) #40 Drake Oil Well (1859) #47 Shippingport Nuclear Power Station (1958) #57 Kaplan Turbine (1929) #59 Chestnut Street Pumping Engine (1913) #77 Worthington Horizontal Cross-compound Pumping (1925) #83 Penn. RR GG1 Electric Locomotive #4800 (1943) #106 Cornwall Iron Furnace (1742) #123 Kingsbury Thrust Bearing (1911)* #142 Pierce-Donachy Ventricular Assist Device (1973) #180 Johnstown Incline (1891) #188 Garfield Thomas Water Tunnel (1949) #215 Coolspring Power Museum (1890-1929) #226 Eddystone Station Unit #1 (1960) #234 The United States Standard Screw Threads (1864)#273 Westinghouse Automatic Air Brake
#10 USS Texas' Reciprocating Steam Engines (1914) #52 Saturn V Rocket (1967) #125 Pullman Sleeping Car Glengyle (1911) #137 Texas & Pacific #610 Lima Superpower Steam Locomotive (1927) #145 Southern Gas Association-PCRC Analog Facility (1955) #151 Victoria Dutch Windmill (1840s) #154 Greens Bayou Generator Plant (1949) #155 Milam High-rise Air Conditioned Building (1928) #160 ABACUS II Integrated-Circuit Wire Bonder (1972) #163 Meter-type Gas Odorizer (1937) #173 Burton Farmers Gin Mill (1914) #179 Newell Shredder (1969) #227 First Ram-Type Blowout Preventer (BOP) (1922) #231 LeTourneau "Mountain Mover" Scraper (1922) #239 Hughes Glomar Explorer (1974) #242 Split-Hopkinson Pressure Bar Apparatus (1962) #243 Digital Micromirror Device (1996) #246 Hughes Two-Cone Drill Bit (1909)
#29 Vulcan Street Power Plant (1882) #37 A. O. Smith Automatic Frame Plant (1920)*** #42 East Wells (Onieda) Street Power Plant (1918) #50 Cooperative Fuel Research Engine (1928) #51 Port Washington Power Plant (1935) #65 Evinrude Outboard Motor (1909) #166 Milwaukee River Flushing Station (1888) #229 Great Northern 2313 — Montana Western 31 Gas-electric Rail Motorcar (1925) #244 Multi-Zone Automatic Temperature Control System (1895)
#253 Sholes &Glidden 'Type Writer' (1873)
#253 Sholes &Glidden 'Type Writer' (1873)
Landmarks by Location (International)
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#70 Newcomen Engine (1712) #73 Turbinia (1897) #97 SS Great Britain (1843) #168 Pegasus 3 Engine BS 916 (1960) #194 Kew Bridge Cornish Beam Engines (1975) #256 Thrust SSC Supersonic Car (1997) #263 Liverpool Manchester Railway & Site of Rainhill Trials
#274 Perkins Vapor-Compression Cycle for Refrigeration
#274 Perkins Vapor-Compression Cycle for Refrigeration
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