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Title	James Leffel and Company Photographs
Subject	Business and Labor Engines Factories
Place	Springfield (Ohio) Clark County (Ohio)
Description	This photograph of a large turbine unit at the James Leffel and Company in Springfield, Ohio was taken in 1930. A second photograph is an aerial view of the factory. The photographs are approximately 9.5" x 7.5" (24.13 x 19.05 cm). James Leffel (1806-1866) was born in Botetourt County, Virginia on April 19, 1806. His parents moved to Ohio before his first birthday and settled in Springfield. For fifteen years Leffel worked as a millwright. In 1840 he built a foundry along Buck Creek, west of Springfield, to take advantage of a growing market in Springfield for small iron tools such as sickles and knives. Over the next several years, Leffel became an entrepreneur with partnerships in a cotton mill and a stove manufacturing company. He became interested in harnessing water power from Buck Creek and experimented with hydraulics and water wheels. He received his first patent in 1845, for a "new and useful improvement on a bevel centrifugal water-wheel." In 1862, Leffel perfected and received a patent for a reaction-type turbine wheel. The new Leffel wheel had a double bucket design and would thus be known as the Double Turbine Water Wheel. The James Leffel and Company became most famous for this design. After James Leffel's death control of the company passed to his son and son-in-law. The company continued to thrive, producing modifications to the original water wheel concept for more than a century. During the twentieth century, the company produced hydraulic turbines for companies in the United States and as far away as Mexico, Japan, and Peru.
Date of Original	1930 - 1940 circa
Collection	The James Leffel and Company Collection
Source	Audiovisual material MS 150
Submitting Institution	Wright State University
Type	StillImage
Format	picture

Title	Om1808_2564120_004
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om1808_2564120_004.tif
Image Height	4935
Image Width	6527
File Size	5550.807 KB

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