Burner cowling, for Stringfellow's 1847-8 flying machine steam engine

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Burner cowling, for horizontal single cylinder-slide valve steam engine, designed and made by John Stringfellow, Chard, Somerset, England, 1847-1848. John Stringfellow made the copper burner cowling for a William Henson designed ten-foot wing-span model aircraft.

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Category:
Aircraft Propulsion
Object Number:
1908-44/2
Materials:
copper (metal)
type:
cover - closure
credit:
Heathcoat, J.N.