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Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

Motive Power

1788

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

Motive Power

1717-1725

Mill Engine

Motive Power

1903

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

Motive Power

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884.

Motive Power

1884

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

Motive Power

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

Motive Power

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Vertical Compound Steam Engine with Hackworth's Valve Gear, 1898

Motive Power

1898

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

Motive Power

1795-1805 (original)

Bust of James Watt in Parian Ware made by Josiah W

Motive Power

after 1859

Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804

Motive Power

1797-1804

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

Motive Power

1819

Columnar Engine, 1862

Motive Power

1862

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

Motive Power

1785
Model of cylinder with separate condenser, formerly described as the "original" model.

Watt's second separate condenser, 1765.

Motive Power

1765

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

Motive Power

1794

Sectional Model of a Beam Engine, 1866.

Motive Power

1866

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

Motive Power

1846

Bell-crank Engine by Boulton and Watt, c. 1810.

Motive Power

Trevithick's High Pressure Steam Engine and Boiler excluding flywheel

Motive Power

1805-1806
Newcomen Engine built by Francis Thompson of Ashover near Chesterfield 1791. Re-erected in house built with materials taken from the engine house at Pentrich, Derbyshire, where it was last worked

Newcomen Atmospheric Engine

Motive Power

1791

Crossley Brothers Atmospheric Gas Engine

Motive Power

1874

Vertical Steam Engine, 1891

Motive Power

1891

Working model of Hero's Aeolipile and steam boiler

Motive Power

100-1 BCE; 1501-1600; 1914

National Diesel Engine

Motive Power

1928

Lancashire Boiler

Motive Power

1889

Demonstration model steam engine.

Motive Power

1965

Model of Hopkinsons' Torsion-Bar steam safety valv

Motive Power

Horizontal Tandem Compound Engine, c. 1910

Motive Power

1910

Trevithick's High Pressure Steam Engine and Boiler, c. 1806

Motive Power

1805-1806

Undershot waterwheel

Motive Power

1820

steam turbine

Motive Power

1956

High Speed Vertical Steam Engine, c. 1900

Motive Power

1900

Model, scale 1:12, of stationary steam boiler, c.1948

Motive Power

c.1948

Model flash steam plant

Motive Power

1935

Collycroft worsted textile mill, 1790

Motive Power

1790

Crossley Horizontal Single-cylinder Engine

Motive Power

1886
McInnes-Dobbie steam engine indicator, McInnes-Dobbie Limited, London, England. Design No.1 of 1888; external spring. No. 2618

McInnes-Dobbie steam engine indicator

Motive Power

1888 (design date)

National Horizontal Gas Engine

Motive Power

1932-1940

Crossley gas engine

Motive Power

c.1920

Grasshopper Engine

Motive Power

1840

Single-Cylinder Drop Valve Engine, c1900.

Motive Power

1867-1933

Model of Halliday Windmill, 1877

Motive Power

1877

Model (scale 1:10) of overshot water-wheel with three part ventilated bucket

Motive Power

Haydock Colliery Steam Engine

Motive Power

1830
Partly sectioned 100 K.W. Radial Flow Steam Turbine alternator with Generator, built by C. A. Parsons and Company, Newcastle upon Tyne in 1892 for the Cambridge Electric Supply Company.

100 K.W. Parsons' Radial Flow Steam Turbine alternator with Generator, partly sectioned

Motive Power

1892
Model representing Murray's portable beam engine, by James Fox, Derby, 1808

Model of Murray's portable beam engine

Motive Power

1808

Mechanical counter, 1888.

Motive Power

1888

Crossley Type IHD4 Diesel Engine

Motive Power

1960

Mollerup automatic pump lubricator for steam engin

Motive Power