Miners Foundry
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The Miners Foundry is located at 325 Spring Street, Nevada City, California, USA. Built in Nevada County in 1856, it is a California Historical Landmark as, in 1879, the foundry became the first manuf
The foundry in 2025
Pelton wheel, circa 1880, built by the Miners Foundry
Lester Allan Pelton
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Lester Allan Pelton was an American inventor who contributed significantly to the development of hydroelectricity and hydropower in the American Old West as well as world-wide. In the late 1870s, he i
Miners Foundry
…Allan bought out Thom and changed the business name to George Allan's Foundry and Machine Works. It was during Allan's ownership of the foundry that Lester Allan Pelton of Camptonville invented a new type of water wheel in the late 1870s. He brought it to Allan's foundry, where he and Allan tested it before manufacturing…
Pelton, c. 1880
Monument to Pelton in Camptonville, California.