Model beam engine made by "Wm. Hooper Forge Man Hayle 1838"

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Model beam engine made by "Wm. Hooper Forge Man Hayle 1838" mounted on a trolley with drawer containing lengths of pipe and tools

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Category:: Motive Power

Object Number:: 1965-470

type:: model

credit:: Dingle, P.

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Parts

Contents of drawer of /2 [Note : some items are part of 1965-471]

Contents of drawer of /2 [Note : some items are part of 1965-471]. Comprises : brass pipe (in 4 sections) with bib cock; brass pipe swivel (gas fitting); brass and copper pipe (in 3 sections); 2 short sections of brass pipe with union; 2 brass union nuts; 1 wood pattern for swell of beam; circular cover in halves; 5 files; 1 2-fold 2 foot rule (iron); 8 spanners; iron hand winch for blower (1965-471); hand winch ;with wooden handle; 5 drill bits; brass clack key; steel screw key; brass weight for lever safety valve; brass pillar for lever safety valve; hammer; brass clack; 2 pieces lead pipe; 2 brass ball finials; cabinet key; 2 screw taps; various small screws, nuts etc; other unidentified small fittings

Object Number:: 1965-470/3

type:: components

High Pressure Condensing Beam Engine, 1838

model of a high pressure beam engine, made by William Hooper, a 'hammerman' at the Copperhouse foundry, awarded a prize at the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society's annual exhibition at Falmouth, 1838.

This fine model may have represented an engine which Hooper saw at the Copperhouse Foundry, but the unsual combination of a governor and reversing gear suggests that he built it based on parts of different engines he had seen, amalgamated together into the finished model. This is an early and intrguing example of model engineering carried out as a hobby, as opposed to being part of professional engineering practice.