Model Watt engine

Model Watt engine with wooden beam and piston valve. Incomplete.

Details

Category:: Motive Power

Object Number:: 1968-482

type:: model

credit:: Trentham, J.A.

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Parts

Comprises : baseboard; fixed framing (damaged but all main parts present - some chips missing); cylinder

Object Number:: 1968-482/1

type:: baseboard

Iron flywheel with shaft and crank

Object Number:: 1968-482/2

type:: wheel

Model Watt engine

Details

Parts

Comprises : baseboard; fixed framing (damaged but all main parts present - some chips missing); cylinder

Iron flywheel with shaft and crank

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