Boiler for Stringfellow's 1847-8 Flying Machine
Boiler, for horizontal single cylinder-slide valve steam engine, by John Stringfellow, Chard, Somerset, England, 1847-1848. John Stringfellow made the boiler for a William Henson designed ten-foot wing-span model aircraft.
Details
- Category:
- Aircraft Propulsion
- Object Number:
- 1908-44/4
- Materials:
- copper (alloy), steel (metal) and paint
- type:
- boiler
- credit:
- Heathcoat, J.N.
