Daily Press: Resurrecting USS Monitor's landmark Pump

Following more than a decade of conservation and the custom casting of new components, USS Monitor Center conservators are unveiling a working replica of the famous Civil War ironclad's Worthington pumps, which are believed to be the oldest surviving examples of the landmark engineering innovation.

Special thanks: USS Monitor Center and Mariner Museum Conservation Project Manager Will Hoffman

[Dog.soldier]

The museum ship uss Olympia has a machine shop of the same generation as the monitor

[blackpine]

Create a full scale working model of the

[jeffbybee]

Why are they significant? Think you said ground breaking. And what were they used for on the monitor ? I'm guessing they were make up water pumps for the boiler.