Nordberg manufacturing company. The company soon expanded into the manufacture of valve engines pumps hoists compressors and similar equipment. Nordberg manufacturing company milwaukee wisconsin. Nordberg founded the company in 1890. The company was founded in 1889 by bruno v.
Close up of nordberg steam engine showing crank end off engine and eccentrics. Includes blueprints of valve engines pumps hoists compressors and similar equipment much of which was used by mining companies in michigans upper peninsula. Nordberg was vice president designer and draftsman for the company from 1890 to 1912 its president from 1912 to 1924 and chairman of the board at his death in 1924. Get this from a library.
1 milwaukee is the largest city in the state of wisconsin and the fifth largest city in the midwestern united states. This combined with the difficulties experienced by several operators led to the phase out of the nordberg radial engine. Nordberg manufacturing company was a manufacturer of steam engines large diesel engines pumps hoists and compressors for the mining and quarry industries located in milwaukee wisconsin. In 1973 nordbergrexnord stopped manufacturing diesel engines and parts.
Nordberg who had been working at steam engine and sawmill maker e. International smelting and refining company tooele smelter powerhouse state route 178 tooele haer utah23 too2a 2tif 3582 5000. Nordberg manufacturing company collection nmahac0975 page 2 of 28 wisconsin historical society library and archives nordberg manufacturing company photographs circa 1910 1970s 182 photographs and 40. One hundred years later in 1989 the company was sold to finish conglomerate metso.
Of negatives 10 archives boxes. By 2004 the nordberg operations were defunct. Nordberg manufacturing company was a manufacturer of steam engines large diesel engines pumps hoists and compressors for the mining and quarry industries located in milwaukee wisconsin.