Motive Power
1791
Bolt with two hex nuts attached, from Newcomen Engine, built by Francis Thompson of Ashover, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, 1791
Mason patent 1886, Standard steam pressure reducing valve for 1" diam. steam pipe, in quarter section
1780
Wooden horse gin, c.1780, used at Rothwell Haigh Colliery, Yorkshire.
Model of disc engine.
Kenyon's pistonless steam engine indicator, 1878
Amsler's planimeter by Elliott, with arrangement for giving directly the mean heights of indicator diagrams
Model of a beam engine frame
1888 (design date)
Balsa triangular component from a steam engine indicator by McInnes-Dobbie Limited, London, England
20th cent
Enamelled advertising sign depicting a Crossley horizontal engine. The Arabic text reads: CROSSLEY Agents in Egypt Mika Suwaris & Co. Alexandria
Speed Indicator or Tachometer
Model of a 500 H.P. Steam Turbine with geared rope drive, 1935. Formerly mounted with 1935-513/1 on a wood base. Original wooden base, Rope drive and geared shafting, Electric motor and Switch returned to owners 11/6/36
1855-1876
Purpose built wooden stand for four trussed beam models, and one oak wood fragment, unsigned, United Kingdom, 1855-1876. The trussed beam models were probably used experimentally for testing the strength of different methods of trussing beams.
1870-1910
Model (scale about 1:24) of twin cylinder or "Siamese" stationary engine, 1870-1910 (see note)
Model (scale 1: 6) of McCarter's patent 1869-73 condenser
1899
Crosby Steam Gage & Valve Co.steam engine indicator, 1899, used by S. Z. de Ferranti Ltd Engine Department.
1775-1785
Wooden lid from Watt's Engine Counter, by Boulton & Watt, Birmingham, England, 1775-1785
1856
Complete 'double sensitive' pressure gauge boiler fitting, invented, patented and made by Mr, J Inshaw in 1856.
Plaster cast of bust of Matthew Boulton, from original by Chantrey in Handsworth Parish Church, Birmingham
Experimental pressure gauge instrument, invented, patented and made by Mr, J Inshaw in 1856.
Bourdon's Pressure Gauge
2010-2011
Replica of model of Newcomen engine, as constructed by Jonathan Sisson and studied by James Watt at Glasgow University from 1763 to 1765, leading to the invention of the separate condenser. Original at Hunterian Museum. Replica made by Network Modelmakers, London W11, 2010-2011
1887
central-valve twin tandem-compound high-speed 'Willans' steam engine, No. 662 manufactured by Willans and Robinson, with 9.6 kw Siemens dynamo, both mounted on cast-iron bedplate, c. 1888 (governor gear missing)
1777
Iron frame from the remains of a Cornish pumping engine, viz "Old Bess", by Boulton, Watt and Company and Soho Manufactory, England, 1777
Unmounted photograph, 12" x 10" of large water-wheel erected in 1854, at Laxey, Isle-of-Man
1928
Professor Dalby's four-crank engine balancing apparatus, made by G. Cussons Limited.
1920
Maker's plate of Scott & Hodgson, Guide Bridge.
1925
Three way cast iron junction pipe made by Manchester Corporation Waterworks, c.1925.
1902
Maker's plate of John & Edward Wood, Bolton, 1902.
Model vertical steam engine
'Dual-fuel' internal-combustion engine, made by the National Gas & Oil Engine Co. Ltd, Ashton-under-Lyne.
Speedometer, or rotary Pocket Counter, in case (four figure)
Stauffer Tell-tale Lubricator, type A, no.6, in section
Sectioned model, scale 1:32, of a Tri-Drum Stirling Boiler, fitted with Stirling Inverted type Superheater, Bailey Water Walls, and Stirling front water screen
1970
Ten wooden patterns used to make the castings for a model of a Marshall MP. 10" x 14" Steam Engine c.1896.
"Diamond" Boiler Tube Sealing Tool, B type, in section
Foster Pressure Regulator Class G3, Type 2042, sectioned
1" Dewrance's Bronze Cone Union for iron pipe, in section, no.3670
Three photographs of Trevithick Type Boiler and Engine of about 1803-4, in one frame
1913
Maker's plate of John Musgrave & Sons, Bolton, 1913.
Wooden box for triple expansion vertical steam engine model, unsigned, England
Richards Improved Patent Steam Indicator manufactured by Elliott Bros.
Stroboscope
1807
Right angled pipe from a model of Maudslay's 1807 table engine (scale 1:24), made by Maudslay, Sons and Field Limited, Lambeth, London, 1807
Model of upper part of a hydro-electric turbine generator on plinth, c.1930-50.
No.2092 Barlows motometer & watercolour sketch.
Photographic print, showing sectional view (scale approx. 1:12) of valve-gear on Boulton & Watt "Lap" Engine (which is on inventory as 1861-46)
Model of cylinder cover, gland and stuffing box
Stauffer locked cap dust proof Lubricator, type J, no.5
Revolution Counter
