The TELEGRAM And PROVIDENCE. Price 25¢ / CORLISS STEM ENGINE CO.

Item Details

Boston, Blanchard & Watts Eng Co, Ca late 1880s / early 1890s.

Single sheet, printed both sides. Recto with center graphic of a boy astride a galloping horse, waving 2 issues of the Evening Telegram; verso with 13 b/w half-tone photographic images of the Corliss Steam Engine Co. 21-1/2" x 18" Age-toning & wear. Evidence of old damping to right side. Old japanese paper repairs to edges & horizontal center fold-line. A Good copy of this rare survivor.

Corliss "was an American mechanical engineer and inventor, who developed the Corliss steam engine, which was a great improvement over any other stationary steam engine of its time. The Corliss engine is widely considered one of the more notable engineering achievements of the 19th century.

The Corliss Steam Engine Company was originally known as Fairbanks, Clark & Co. in the 1830s. In 1843 it was renamed Fairbanks, Bancroft & Co. when Edward Bancroft joined the company. In 1846 it was renamed Bancroft, Nightingale & Co. when George H. Corliss joined the company, and in 1847 it was renamed Corliss, Nightingale and Co. In 1848 the company moved to the Charles Street Railroad Crossing in Providence, Rhode Island. In 1895 the Corliss company was shut down under the burden of $800,000 debt, and in 1900 it was sold to International Power Company controlled by industrialist Joseph H. Hoadley." [Wiki]

The Evening Telegraph a Providence R.I. daily, in publication from 1880 - 1906 [cf. OCLC entry 19900816]. And while we have no direct proof this, we suspect the Telegram used a Corliss engine in its printing process, hence the juxtaposition of these two on the broadsheet.

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