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B. W. Payne and sons
B. W. Payne was founded in Corning, New York in 1875 and moved to Elmira, New York in 1882.
This Payne engine is an "automatic" engine. This refers to the governor type. Most steam engines used a throttle valve to control the flow into the cylinder. An automatic engine adjusts the timing and alters the steam cut off of the inlet valve.
Most automatic engines were considered high speed and was used to drive dynamos or generators.
This engine also uses a piston valve instead of the much more common slide valve.
It is also recorded that Thomas Edison used a B.W. Payne engine while testing his DC generators.
Our Payne engine has a 6" bore and 8" stroke and a 37" flywheel. The auction it was purchased from also sold an Edison generator and had items from the Henry Ford Museum. Was this an engine used by Edison? Something we will never know!
All operations was moved to Elmira in 1882, making this a pre 1882 engine.
The original eccentric strap was missing from this engine. We were able to machine a early unknown maker strap to fit. Should be testing the engine on air soon.
big news!!!
After searching a site containing old photo's from the Henry Ford Museum, we now know that this engine was indeed on display in the Museum in the early 1980's. The engine in the photo is missing the valve linkage and eccentric and has the same 1-1/4" pipe coming into the engine. We still have not tied the engine to Edison, but we will keep searching.