Cornerstones: Cooper Horizontals dominate
May 19, 2026
The Cornerstones of Compression series has highlighted many significant products over more than 160 years of continuous progress. This is the final of a three-issue series that traces the emergence of large horizontal gas engine-compressors at the turn of the 20th century and the emergence of the C & G Cooper Company and later, Cooper-Bessemer, as the primary manufacturer of these huge machines for four decades.
Within little more than a decade after producing its first large horizontal gas-engine compressor, it was dominating the natural gas pipeline compression market. The compressor end, shown in the tandem unit in Fig. 1, was a small part of the long and massive machines that were shipped in many…
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