Pittsburgh Steam Engine Company

Pittsburgh Steam Engine Company
IndustryManufacturing
PredecessorPittsburgh Engine Company
Founded1811
FounderOliver Evans
Headquarters,
ProductsAnchors, high-pressure steam engines, iron casings, and other heavy equipment


The Pittsburgh Steam Engine Company, originally known as the Pittsburgh Engine Company,[1] was a company founded in 1811[2] by Oliver Evans to manufacture high-pressure steam engines.

  1. ^ Latrobe, Benjamin Henry; Van Horne, John C; Formwalt, Lee W (1984–1988). The correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Maryland Historical Society. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 513.
  2. ^ Meyer, David R (2006). Networked machinists : high-technology industries in Antebellum America. Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 44. ISBN 978-0-8018-8471-9. OCLC 65340979.