This engine can be considered for its arrangements as the typical stationary internal combustion engine of the early XX century, widely used to drive operating machines, pumps or electric generators. Despite its overall arrangement is strictly derived from the contemporary steam engines, it has all those features which have been progressively developed in the following decades. In particular this engine has been acquired in circa 1906 to drive the working machines in a Sicilian sulphur mine. Then it was used to produce electricity in a mountain farm near Palermo, up to the 1950s.
Commonly used in factories and workshops to drive operating machines, pumps or electric generators.
Kind donation of Mrs. Gaetana Saporito Scalia.
