Roots Blower Company

Roots Blower Company
IndustryEngineering
Founded1859 
Founders
  • Philander Higley Roots
  • Francis Marion Roots
Defunct1931 (1931)
FateAcquired by International Derrick and Equipment Company and merged with Connersville Blower Company to form Roots-Connersville Blower Company
Headquarters
Connersville, Indiana
,
United States

The Roots Blower Company was an American engineering company based in Connersville, Indiana. It was founded in 1854 by the inventors Philander Higley Roots and Francis Marion Roots. It is notable for the Roots blower, a type of pump. Today, Roots blowers are mainly used as air pumps in superchargers for internal combustion engines; they were first used in blast furnaces to blow combustion air to melt iron.

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