Pioneer Oil Refinery 1876:
ASME Landmark Program.
By The American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
September 27, 1975.

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THE ASME NATIONAL HISTORIC MECHANICAL ENGINEERING LANDMARK PROGRAM

This nation's Bicentennial Celebration has sparked The American Society of Mechanical Engineers to institute a History and Heritage Committee. The charge given these people is to use volunteer assistance to gather data on everything that has a mechanical engineering connection 75 or so years ago Each Section of the ASME has such a committee to gather data on local sites and artifacts.

The History and Heritage Committees have settled on attaining two objectives: (1) a listing of industrial operations and related mechanical engineering artifacts in what they have designated as a "Historic Engineering Record," and (2) a "National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmarks" program The former is a record of detailed studies of sites in each local area; the latter is a demarcation of local sites which are of national significance — people or events which have contributed to the general development of mankind.

The overall objective of the ASME's History and Heritage Committee is to promote a general awareness of our technological heritage among both engineers and the general public. To attain this objective, new material is continually being gathered with a view toward publishing a supplement to the local record when sufficient new sites and artifacts of mechanical engineering have been uncovered.

The Pioneer Oil Refinery is the eighth landmark to be designated since the program began in 1973. The first seven include:

• Ferries and Cliff House Cable Railway Power House, San Francisco, 1973.
• Leavitt Pumping Engine, Chestnut Hill Pumping Station, Brookline, Ma., 1973.
• A.B. Wood Low Head High Volume Screw Pump, New Orleans, La., 1974.
• Portsmouth-Kittery Naval Shipbuilding Activity, Portsmouth, NH, 1975.
• 102-inch Boyden Hydraulic Turbines, Cohoes, NY, 1975.
• 5000 KW Vertical Curtis Steam Turbine-Generator, Schenectady, NY, 1975.
• Saugus Iron Works, Saugus, Ma., 1975.

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