Riley & Cowley

Reuben Riley was an assistant engineer with the United States Navy during the American Civil War.Whittemore 1889. pp. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951p005068414?urlappend=%3Bseq=327 301–2]. After receiving his discharge in 1865, Riley returned to New York where, together with engineer Robert Cowley and George Besser, he established a machine shop at 3 Summit Street, Brooklyn, which traded under the name Riley, Cowley & Besser.Lain 1868. p. [http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/viewer/?file=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FOld%2520New%2520York%2520City%2520Directories%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520City%2520Directory%252c%25201868%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520City%2520Directory%25201868%2520-%25200557.pdf 521].Stiles 1884. p. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nnc2.ark:/13960/t5z638z2w?urlappend=%3Bseq=111 691]. This partnership was dissolved in October 1868 with the departure of Besser,{{cite news |author= |title= Special Notices |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7688107/riley_cowley_besser_dissolves_oct/ |newspaper= The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |page= 3 |date= 1868-10-14 }} but Riley and Cowley retained their business association.

In 1869, the two remaining partners established a new machine shop in Brooklyn with the company name Riley & Cowley.Half-Century{{'}}s Progress of the City of Brooklyn. p. [https://archive.org/stream/halfcenturysprog00wars#page/202/mode/2up 202]. Prior to 1879, the company was located at 187 Van Brunt Street, on the corner of Van Brunt and Bowne Streets. Riley and Cowley eventually acquired a property on the corner of Richards and Bowne Streets, Brooklyn, and in 1879, plans were announced for the construction on this site of "two one and two-story brick shops, 40x60 and 100 [ft], tin roof and wooden and brick cornice".{{cite journal |author= |date= 1879-08-30 |title= Buildings Projected. Brooklyn, N. Y. Plan 685. |url= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nnc2.ark:/13960/t2b85mh46?urlappend=%3Bseq=228 |journal= Real Estate Record and Builders{{'}} Guide |volume= XXIV |number= 598 |page= 700 |hdl= 2027/nnc2.ark:/13960/t2b85mh46?urlappend=%3Bseq=228 }} After the relocation of the company to this address, these buildings appear to have been utilized as "a machine shop, blacksmith shop, pattern shop ... and storehouse."{{cite journal |author= |date= 1906-05-18 |title= For Sale |url= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015080284311?urlappend=%3Bseq=710 |journal= American Machinist |location= New York |publisher= Hill Publishing Company |hdl= 2027/mdp.39015080284311?urlappend=%3Bseq=710 }} The company would remain at this address for the balance of its 36-year history.

Riley & Cowley specialized in the design and manufacture of compound and triple expansion steam propeller engines for small watercraft such as yachts, launches and tow boats. They also designed and built single-cylinder marine engines, marine propellers and machinery for steam dredges, as well as making engine and boiler repairs. Riley & Cowley engines had a reputation for speed, reliability, economy, compactness, lightness and ease of maintenance.Howell 1896. p. [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924030901817#page/n89/mode/2up 87]. In particular, the company{{'}}s attention to balancing all parts of an engine to reduce or eliminate vibration resulted in engines capable of achieving optimal performance. Some engines were sufficiently self-contained and light in weight that they could be readily removed from the hull for winter storage.

Engines built by the company were distributed to "all parts of the United States". The company employed 55 people by the mid-1880s,State of New York 1890. p. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924055997732?urlappend=%3Bseq=120 114]. about half of whom were machinists; the number of employees had risen to 100 by 1902, about forty of whom were machinists.United States Government 1903. p. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3990132?urlappend=%3Bseq=118 112].

By the 1880s, Riley & Cowley were supplying engines to members of New York{{'}}s elite yachting set. Clients of the company included leading political and business identities such as Brooklyn mayor James Howell,{{cite news |author= |title= Some Fast Steam Launches |url= http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%209/New%20York%20NY%20Sun/New%20York%20NY%20Sun%201882-Jun-Dec%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Sun%201882-Jun-Dec%20Grayscale%20-%200502.pdf |newspaper= The Sun |location= New York |date= 1892-07-09 |page= 4 }} patent medicine manufacturer Ray Vaughn Pierce,The American Yacht List. 1891. p. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433066625371?urlappend=%3Bseq=356 186]. heir to the Aspinwall fortune, the Rev. John A. Aspinwall, and others.{{efn|See production table.}}

In 1890, the company supplied what was then reportedly the smallest triple-expansion engine built in the United States—with cylinders of {{convert|4|,|6.5|and|10|in|cm}} by {{convert|8|in|cm|adj=mid}} stroke—for Aspinwall{{'}}s steam launch Secret.{{cite journal |author= |date= Oct 1890 |title= Marine Engineering |url= https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015013032506?urlappend=%3Bseq=497 |journal= The Railroad and Engineering Journal |volume= LXIV |number= 10 |page= 473 |location= New York |publisher= M. N. Forney |hdl= 2027/mdp.39015013032506?urlappend=%3Bseq=497 }} An engine of similar pattern was also installed in the steam launch Lillian, a vessel built for tobacco heir Pierre Lorillard III for use as a hunting launch along the East Coast.{{cite journal |author= |date= 1890-02-08 |title= Mr. Lorillard{{'}}s Steel Launch |url= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/pst.000062999625?urlappend=%3Bseq=97 |journal= Scientific American |volume= LXII |issue= 6 |page= 89 |location= New York |publisher= Munn & Co. |hdl= 2027/pst.000062999625?urlappend=%3Bseq=97 }} These {{cvt|75|hp|lk=on}}, 450 rpm triple expansion engines operated at a steam pressure of about {{cvt|250|psi|lk=on}} and were characterized by "simplicity of construction and accessibility of parts", making them "peculiarly adapted" to their purpose. The engines also featured a simple reversing mechanism that dispensed with the usual linkages. This model of small triple-expansion powerplant seems to have been particularly successful for the company, the type eventually finding its way into "many steam launches and yachts where it has given excellent satisfaction".{{cite journal |author= |date= 1890-02-15 |title= Triple-Cylinder Expansion Engine by Riley and Cowley |url= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015010942491?urlappend=%3Bseq=47 |journal= The Engineer |volume= XIX |issue= 4 |page= 37 |location = New York |publisher= Egbert P. Watson & Son |hdl= 2027/mdp.39015010942491?urlappend=%3Bseq=47 }} The company would later build even smaller triple-expansion engines.{{cite journal |author= |date= Mar 1905 |title= Boats for Sale: No. 16107 |url= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015022693595?urlappend=%3Bseq=270 |journal= The Rudder |volume= XVI |issue= 3 |page= 215 |publisher= The Rudder Publishing Company |location= New York |hdl= 2027/mdp.39015022693595?urlappend=%3Bseq=270 }}

An unusual watercraft to receive a Riley & Cowley engine in 1890 was an "unsinkable" {{convert|58|ft|adj=mid}} steam yawl which the inventor, Captain Frank Norton, planned to take across the Atlantic as proof of concept. The engine supplied for this vessel was a {{cvt|30|hp}} compound type with cylinders of {{convert|5.5|and|10|in|cm}}, an operating pressure of {{cvt|120|psi}} and coal consumption of about 1/2 ton per day.{{cite journal |author= |date= 1890-12-06 |title= Norton{{'}}s Unsinkable Ship |url= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015010942491?urlappend=%3Bseq=300 |journal= The Engineer |volume= XX |issue= 12 |page= 134 |publisher= Egbert P. Watson & Son |location= New York |hdl= 2027/mdp.39015010942491?urlappend=%3Bseq=300 }}

In 1891, Riley & Cowley completed the engine for a fast steam launch for the Yale College Boat Club. The launch, intended to keep pace with rowing regattas, had a speed requirement of {{convert|14|mph}}, but several other companies had tried and failed to meet the requirement. Riley & Cowley supplied a triple expansion engine with cylinders of {{convert|5|,|8|and|13.5|in|cm}} with {{convert|8|in|cm|adj=mid}} stroke, which in trials handily exceeded the requirement by recording a speed of {{convert|16.5|mph|abbr=on}}.{{cite journal |author= |date= 1891-06-06 |title= A Fast Steam Launch |url= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015010942509?urlappend=%3Bseq=145 |journal= The Engineer |volume= XXI |issue= 12 |page= 135 |publisher= Egbert P. Watson & Son |location= New York |hdl= 2027/mdp.39015010942509?urlappend=%3Bseq=145 }}

Around the same time, a fast steam launch, named Norwood, was completed for Norman L. Munro at the yard of C. D. Mosher. Mosher built both the launch and its engine, but the latter failed to produce adequate performance until overhauled by Riley & Cowley. After the overhaul, Norwood broke the record between New York Harbor and Sandy Hook in a race with the fast steamer Monmouth, covering the {{convert|14|mi|adj=on}} distance in 32 minutes or better than {{convert|26|mph|km/h kn|abbr=on}}, thus laying claim to being not only the fastest vessel in New York Harbor,{{cite journal |author= |date= Sep 1891 |title= Popular Miscellany |url= https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015014810140?urlappend=%3Bseq=874 |journal= The Engineering Magazine |volume= I |issue= 6 |pages= 860–1 |publisher= The Engineering Magazine Company |location= New York |hdl= 2027/mdp.39015014810140?urlappend=%3Bseq=874 }} but the fastest steam launch in the world, rivalling that of some naval torpedo boats of the day.{{cite news |author= |title= Name the Fastest Boat |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23488257/norwood_speed_challenge_aug_1891/ |work= The Record-Union |location= Sacramento, CA |page= 1 }} Her top speed was said to be in excess of {{convert|30|mph|km/h kn}}.Howell 1896. pp. [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924030901817#page/n123/mode/2up 121–23].

File:Riley & Cowley 3 and 5 by 5 inch compound steam engine.jpg | {{convert|3|and|5|by|5|in|cm|abbr=on}} compound

File:Riley & Cowley 4.5 and 9 by 6 inch compound steam engine.jpg | {{convert|4.5|and|9|by|6|in|cm|abbr=on}} compound

File:Riley & Cowley 4, 6.5 and 10 by 8 inch triple expansion engine.jpg | {{convert|4|,|6.5|and|10|by|8|in|cm|abbr=on}} triple expansion

File:Riley & Cowley 5, 8, 13.5 by 8 inch triple expansion engine.jpg | {{convert|5|,|8|and|13.5|by|8|in|cm|abbr=on}} triple expansion

In 1902, Riley & Cowley built a steam car to the order of one B. M. Whitlock,{{efn|Probably the New York yachting uniform manufacturer.The American Yacht List 1888. pp. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433066625397?urlappend=%3Bseq=18 viii–viiii].}} in the style of "a high powered, foreign gasoline touring car". The vehicle, which seated two people, had a wheelbase of {{convert|8|ft|6|in}} and weighed about {{convert|4000|lb|kg|abbr=on|lk=on}} in all, "including supplies". The vehicle had two gears—which operated in both forward and reverse, as the engine was run in reverse to reverse the vehicle. The driver steered by means of a {{convert|16|in|cm|adj=mid}} wheel on an inclined column. Two brakes were provided—a steam and a foot brake.{{cite journal |author= |date= 1902-12-31 |title= The Riley & Cowley Steam Car |url= https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015039811529?urlappend=%3Bseq=740 |journal= The Horseless Age |volume= 10 |issue= 27 |pages= 726–27 |publisher= Horseless Age Co. |location= New York |hdl= 2027/mdp.39015039811529?urlappend=%3Bseq=740 }}

The powerplant, a compound steam engine with cylinder bores of {{convert|3|and|6|in|cm}} and a stroke of {{convert|6|in|cm}}, was capable of developing {{cvt|12|bhp|lk=on}} at {{cvt|150|psi}} or {{cvt|15|bhp}} at {{cvt|300|psi}}; side-chain drive was used to transmit power to the wheels. The boiler, a fire-tube type {{convert|18|in|cm}} in height, was placed at the front of the vehicle, concealed beneath an aluminium bonnet. A fuel tank with a capacity of {{convert|25|USgal|lk=on}} was located at the extreme rear, while the water tank, with a capacity of {{convert|100|USgal}}, was fitted in the body. "Ingenious" exhaust pipes carried the exhaust gases to the rear of the vehicle. Suspension of the vehicle was by leaf springs. The wheels were fitted with {{convert|32|×|2.5|in|cm|adj=mid}} hardened fabric tyres, which could be inflated by means of an inbuilt air pump. This vehicle appears to have been the only steam car ever built by the company.Glasscock 1937. p. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89067683789?urlappend=%3Bseq=360 332].

Following the death of Robert Cowley, senior partner in the firm, in January 1905, the company was wound up.{{cite magazine |author= |title= For Sale |url= https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015080284311?urlappend=%3Bseq=710 |magazine= American Machinist |location= New York |publisher= Hill Publishing Co. |date= 1905-05-18 |page= 678 |hdl= 2027/mdp.39015080284311?urlappend=%3Bseq=710 }} In June, the entire equipment of the company, including patterns for engines, propellers, gears, pumps and other machinery, was offered for private sale.{{cite news |author= |title= Machine, Blacksmith and Pattern Shops |url= http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2014/New%20York%20NY%20Herald/New%20York%20NY%20Herald%201905/New%20York%20NY%20Herald%201905%20-%205151.pdf |work= New York Herald |date= 1905-06-11 |page= 20 }}

A few weeks later, in July, the surviving partner, Reuben Riley, established a new business at 192 24th Street, Brooklyn, The Riley Machine Works, capitalized at $6,500 ({{inflation|US|6500|1905|fmt=eq}}).{{cite magazine |author= |title= Eastern |url= https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433108238738?urlappend=%3Bseq=126 |magazine= The Iron and Machinery World |location= Chicago, IL |publisher= The Iron and Machinery World (Inc.) |date= 1905-07-22 |volume= XCVIII |series= 4 |number= 33 |page= 22 |hdl= 2027/nyp.33433108238738?urlappend=%3Bseq=126 }} Incorporators of the new firm were Riley, his wife Amanda and son Frank, with Riley serving as company president and Frank as vice-president and general manager. The firm offered "special attention to marine repairs". This company appears to have been dissolved around the time of the death of Riley{{'}}s wife in May 1908.{{efn|Judging by the company{{'}}s advertising history; the company advertised regularly until August 1908 when advertising ceases and is not renewed.}}

Reuben Riley was born in Tuckahoe, Westchester County, New York, on October 25, 1838. He received a "good public school education" before travelling to New York in 1854, where he completed a five-year apprenticeship as a machinist and engineer with Henry Esler & Co. of South Brooklyn. During the American Civil War, Riley joined the United States Navy, serving from 1863 to the end of the war aboard {{USS|Honeysuckle}}, during which time he was promoted from Assistant Engineer to 2nd Assistant Engineer. Discharged from the Navy on August 21, 1865, he returned to New York to co-found the firm of Riley & Cowley.

Riley married Amanda Hilliker of Tuckahoe, New York in 1860. The couple had four children, including Frank M. Riley, who followed his father into the family business. Riley was a Freemason, an Aid-de-Camp to the Commander in Chief, Grand Army of the Republic, and a member of the board of trustees of the Brooklyn Bridge. A respected engineer, he is known to have given a number of well-received lectures in the field.{{efn|Examples:{{cite journal |author= |date= 1891-03-28 |title= Reminiscences of a Machinist and Marine Engineer |url= https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiug.30112061157910?urlappend=%3Bseq=132 |journal= The American Engineer |volume= 21 |issue= 13 |publisher= The American Engineer Publishing Co. |location= Chicago, IL |page= 124 |hdl= 2027/uiug.30112061157910?urlappend=%3Bseq=132 }}{{cite journal |author= |date= 1889-11-23 |title= Personal Mention and Engineers{{'}} Directory |url= https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015010942483?urlappend=%3Bseq=293 |journal= The Engineer |volume= XVIII |issue= 11 |page= 125 |publisher= Egbert P. Watson & Son |location= New York |hdl= 2027/mdp.39015010942483?urlappend=%3Bseq=293 }}}} He became wealthy as a result of his business activities.{{cite news |author= |title= Mrs. Lester Divorced |url= http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/viewer/?file=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspapers%25207%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Eagle%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Eagle%25201905%2520Grayscale%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Eagle%25201905%2520Grayscale%2520-%25200798.pdf |newspaper= The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |date= 1905-01-30 |page= 2 }}

Robert Cowley, an engineer, was born in Stockton-on-Tees, England, on January 19, 1836, and emigrated to North America as a young man. He married a Canadian-born woman, Annie Ramsay, in Toronto, Canada, on January 3, 1860. The couple had two children together, Charles Ramsey, who followed his father into the family business, and a daughter Ida, later Mrs. Ida L. Knapp.{{cite magazine |author= |editor-last= Buckley |editor-first= James M. |title= Memoirs |magazine= The Christian Advocate |volume= LXXX |issue= 15 |location= New York |publisher= Eaton & Mains |date= 1905-07-13 |page= [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433003096801?urlappend=%3Bseq=605 599] }}

In addition to his work with Riley & Cowley, Cowley was a director of the Hamilton Bank. He was a devout Christian and a board member of the First Place Methodist Church of Brooklyn, which he attended three times a week—for prayer meetings every Wednesday and twice on Sundays. He was also a keen art collector, accumulating a substantial gallery of works through the course of his life, including "many ... by the old masters." Cowley died suddenly on January 12, 1905, at the age of 68. He was survived by his wife and children.

The following table represents only a sample of engines built by the company, for some of the more notable watercraft.

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• {{cite book |author= |title= The American Yacht List |location= New York |publisher= Thomas Manning |year= 1888 |pages= [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433066625397?urlappend=%3Bseq=164 128], [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433066625397?urlappend=%3Bseq=179 143] |date= 1888}}
• {{cite book |author= |title= The American Yacht List |location= New York |publisher= Thomas Manning |year= 1889 |pages= [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433066625389?urlappend=%3Bseq=60 32] }}
• {{cite book |date= 1891 |title= The American Yacht List |location= New York |publisher= Thomas Manning |year= 1891 |pages= [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433066625371?urlappend=%3Bseq=352 182], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433066625371?urlappend=%3Bseq=356 186], [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433066625371?urlappend=%3Bseq=469 299] }}
• {{cite book |author= |title= The American Yacht List |volume= I |location= New York |publisher= Thomas Manning |year= 1896 |pages= [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433066625330?urlappend=%3Bseq=142 18], [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433066625330?urlappend=%3Bseq=151 27], [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433066625330?urlappend=%3Bseq=168 44], [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433066625330?urlappend=%3Bseq=169 45] |date= 1896 }}
• {{cite book |last= Glasscock |first= C. B. |date= 1937 |title= The Gasoline Age: The Story of the Men Who Made it |location= Indianapolis and New York |publisher= The Bobbs-Merrill Company |page= [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89067683789?urlappend=%3Bseq=360 332] }}
• {{cite book |author= |year= 1886 |title= Half-Century{{'}}s Progress of the City of Brooklyn |location= New York |publisher= International Publishing Co. |page= [https://archive.org/stream/halfcenturysprog00wars#page/202/mode/2up 202] }}
• {{cite book |last= Howell |first= G. Foster |date= 1896 |title= Howell{{'}}s Steam Vessels and Marine Engines |location= New York |publisher= The American Shipbuilder |pages= [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924030901817#page/n89/mode/2up 87–88], [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924030901817#page/n123/mode/2up 121–23] }}
• {{cite book |first= George T. |last= Lain |year= 1868 |title= Brooklyn City Directory For The Year Ending May 1st, 1868 |location= Brooklyn, New York |publisher= J. Lain & Co. |page= [http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/viewer/?file=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FOld%2520New%2520York%2520City%2520Directories%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520City%2520Directory%252c%25201868%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520City%2520Directory%25201868%2520-%25200557.pdf 521] }}
• {{cite book |author= |title= Lloyd{{'}}s Register of American Yachts |location= New York |publisher= Lloyd{{'}}s Register of Shipping |page= [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002229148u?urlappend=%3Bseq=112 94] |date= 1905 }}
• {{cite book |author= |title= Lloyd{{'}}s Register of American Yachts |location= New York |publisher= Lloyd{{'}}s Register of Shipping |page= [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924080572096?urlappend=%3Bseq=192 182] |date= 1914 }}
• {{cite book |author= |title= Manning{{'}}s Yacht Register |location= New York |publisher= A. J. Manning |volume= I |pages= [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433066625496?urlappend=%3Bseq=197 35], [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433066625496?urlappend=%3Bseq=209 47], [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433066625496?urlappend=%3Bseq=226 64] |date= 1903 }}
• {{cite report |author= State of New York |year= 1890 |title= Fourth Annual Report of the Factory Inspectors of the State of New York |publisher= James B. Lyon |page= [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924055997732?urlappend=%3Bseq=120 114] }}
• {{cite book |last= Stiles |first= Henry Reed |year= 1884 |title= The Civil, Political, Professional and Ecclesiastical History and Commercial and Industrial Record of the County of Kings and the City of Brooklyn, N.Y. from 1683 to 1884 |location= New York |publisher= W. W. Munsell & Co. |volume= II |page= [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nnc2.ark:/13960/t5z638z2w?urlappend=%3Bseq=111 691]}}
• {{cite book |author= United States Government |title= Eight Hours For Laborers On Government Work. Hearings Before the Committee on Education and Labor of the United States Senate |location= Washington, DC |publisher= Government Printing Office |page= [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3990132?urlappend=%3Bseq=118 112] |year= 1903 }}
• {{cite book |last= Whittemore |first= Henry |year= 1889 |title= Free Masonry in North America from the Colonial Period to the Beginning of the Present Century: Also the History of Masonry in New York from 1730 to 1888: in Connection with the History of the Several Lodges Included in What is Now Known as the Third Masonic District of Brooklyn |location= New York |publisher= Artotype Printing and Publishing Co. |pages= [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951p005068414?urlappend=%3Bseq=327 301–2]}}

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