PEOPLE
This Engineer designed Engine #3.
Who is Erasmus Darwin Leavitt, jr.?
68% of the world's fresh water is found here.
What are glaciers?
This massive device, found in the Great Engine Hall, was used to lift and move large parts and equipment.
What is the overhead bridge-crane?
The Worthington-Snow engine was assembled in this city.
What is Buffalo, New York?
The most common question asked by visitors upon arriving to the museum.
"Do we need a parking permit?"
This pioneer created a map that marked areas of chloride concentration in waters across Massachusetts.
Who is Ellen Swallow Richards?
This Reservoir is 47 miles from Boston.
What is the Wachusett?
This machine, located in the Great Engines Hall, produced the horsepower equivalent to a 1960's muscle car?
What is the Leavitt engine?
Of the four towns in the Swift River Valley inundated by the opening of the Quabbin Reservoir in 1938, this town had the largest population.
What is Enfield?
As an alternative to taking a guided tour, visitors to the Waterworks Museum can take this.
What is an audio tour?
While with the Boston Water Works, this Engineer established the first, and for many years the only, biological laboratory in this country operated in connection with a water works system.
Who is Desmond Fitzgerald?
Today, the Quabbin and Wachusett Reservoirs, and the Ware River combine to provide how many million gallons of water per day to the MWRA system?
What is 300 million?
Very noticeable on all the pumps in the Waterworks Museum, these help to reduce pressure fluctuations (or water hammer) and create a more consistent flow of water .
What are air chambers?
This facility, operated since 2005 by the MWRA, uses ozone, ultraviolet light and other processes to protect human health.
What is the John J. Carroll Water Treatment plant?
The carvable red sandstone incorporated in the Chestnut Hill High Service Pumping Station, is found in this central Massachusetts town.
What is Longmeadow?
This architect associated with the Chestnut Hill Reservoir, served as President of the Boston Water Board from 1865 to 1871.
Who is Nathaniel Bradlee?
70% of this human body part is made of water.
What is the brain?
E.D. Leavitt jr, seeking improved efficiency and economy, utilized this approach for the first time in Massachusetts.
What is triple-expansion steam technology?
Operating in Boston between 1829 and 1895, this was the first American hotel to feature indoor plumbing, indoor toilets and baths and free soap for the guests.
What is the Tremont House?
The Metropolitan Waterworks Museum was founded by this group of volunteer preservationists.
Who are the Friends of the Waterworks?
In the mid-19th century, both Edwin Reynolds, Manager of the E.P. Allis Co. and E. D. Leavitt, jr., worked for this influential Providence-based company.
What is the Corliss Steam Engine Company?
This was the terminus of the Cochituate Aqueduct and the beginning of the Boston water distribution system.
What is the Brookline Reservoir?
Found on all the steam engines in the Waterworks Museum, this device provides great efficiency by cooling the exhaust steam from the engine, turning it back into water and creating a vacuum.
What is a condenser?
The Chestnut Hill neighborhood is partially located in these three counties.
What are Suffolk, Middlesex and Norfolk counties?
The Metropolitan Waterworks Museum is one of this many condominiums in the former High Service Pumping Station.
What are five?