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unusual facts about Corliss-Brackett House


Corliss-Brackett House

The Italian Villa style house was built in 1875 by George Henry Corliss, inventor of the Corliss Steam Engine.


Charles Brackett

His mother was Mary Emma Corliss, whose uncle, George Henry Corliss, built the Centennial Engine that powered the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.

Crystal Spring Steam Pumping Station

The building houses a Corliss-type pump made by the Snow Pump Co. in Buffalo, N.Y., with a 5,000,000 gallon daily pumping capacity.

Edward C. Kilbourne

Edward Corliss Kilbourne (1856–1959) was the founder of the Seattle public electricity system.

Engine efficiency

Others before Corliss had at least part of this idea, including Zachariah Allen, who patented variable cut off, but lack of demand, increased cost and complexity and poorly developed machining technology delayed introduction until Corliss.

Hannah Duston

When their farm was attacked, Thomas fled with eight children, but Hannah, her newborn daughter Martha, and her nurse Mary Neff (nee Corliss) were captured and forced to march into the wilderness.

IPhone art

Artists such as David Hockney and Corliss Blakely have held art exhibits with art made exclusively on their iPads.

Meet Corliss Archer

Like many other radio shows, Meet Corliss Archer made the leap to television with live performances in 1951 and 1952, and from 1954 to 1955, as a syndicated television show starring Ann Baker and Mary Brian.

Meet Corliss Archer was written by F. Hugh Herbert, who first introduced the character and her friends in the magazine story "A Private Affair," the first of a series of stories.

Stephen N. Haskell

Together with two other Adventist preachers, John Corliss and Mendel Israel, he helped start the Signs Publishing Company first began as the Echo Publishing Company, in North Fitzroy, a suburb of Melbourne, which by 1889, was the third largest Seventh-day Adventist publishing house in the world.


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