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Title
Cooper-Bessemer
Company
GMV-4
Gas
Line
Compressor
Subject
Business and Labor
Machinery
Engines
Cooper-Bessemer Corporation
Place
Mt. Vernon (Ohio)
Knox County (Ohio)
Description
This
photograph
shows
a
70,000
pound
Cooper-Bessemer
Company
GMV-4
gas
line
compressor
in
2001
.
It
was
donated
to the
Knox
County
Historical
Society
by
retired
Cooper-Bessemer
employees
and
executives
along
with the
funds
for a
50
'
x
50
'
museum
addition
to
display
it
in. The
GMV-4
was
built
in
1944
and
is
10
'
x
10
' at the
base
and
10.5
'
high
(3.048
x
3.048
x
3.2
meters)
.
Charles
and
Elias
Cooper
founded
the
C
.
&
G
.
Cooper
Company
of
Mt
.
Vernon
,
Ohio
, in
1833
and
manufactured
industrial
and
farm
steam
engines
throughout
the
nineteenth
century
. In
1929
, the
firm
merged
with the
Bessemer
Gas
Engine
Company
of
Grove
City
,
Pennsylvania
and
became
known
as the
Cooper-Bessemer
Company
. The
company
manufactured
power
and
compression
equipment
for the
transmission
of
natural
gas
. In the
1960s
,
Cooper-Bessemer
began
to
diversify
,
eventually
broadening
its
product
lines
to
include
petroleum
and
industrial
equipment
,
electrical
products
,
electrical
power
equipment
,
automotive
products
,
tools
, and
hardware
. In the
1990s
Cooper-Bessmer
Company
began
to
focus
on
electrical
products
and
tools
and
hardware
, its
two
most
profitable
business
segments
. The
company
moved
its
headquarters
to
Houston
,
Texas
at the
end
of the
twentieth
century
.
Creator
Cooper-Bessemer Corporation
Date of Original
1944
Source
Historical object(s) or artifact(s)
Collection 02-13
Submitting Institution
Knox County Historical Society
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
Type
StillImage
File Name
Om2576_2961561_001.tif
Image Height
1059
Image Width
1543
File Size
500.519 KB
Format
picture
;
objects
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