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Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

Motive Power

1788

Mill Engine

Motive Power

1903

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

Motive Power

1898

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

Motive Power

1717-1725

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884.

Motive Power

1884

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

Motive Power

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

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

Motive Power

1795-1805 (original)

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

Motive Power

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

Motive Power

1819

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

Motive Power

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

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

Motive Power

1797-1804

Bust of James Watt in Parian Ware made by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons from original by E.W. Wyon

Motive Power

after 1859

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

Motive Power

1794

Columnar Engine, 1862

Motive Power

1862

Sectional Model of a Beam Engine, 1866.

Motive Power

1866

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

Motive Power

1785

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

Working model of Hero's Aeolipile

Motive Power

100-1 BCE; 1501-1600; 1914

National Diesel Engine

Motive Power

1928
Model of cylinder with separate condenser, formerly described as the "original" model.

Watt's second separate condenser, 1765.

Motive Power

1765

Model of Hopkinsons' Torsion-Bar steam safety valve

Motive Power

Vertical Steam Engine, 1891

Motive Power

1891

Mirrlees, Bickerton & Day Diesel Engine

Motive Power

1927

Sectioned Maihak Indicator, Type S, with accessories

Motive Power

Crossley Horizontal Single-cylinder Engine

Motive Power

1886
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

Lieuvain's patent 1866 needle lubricator for shafting &c.

Motive Power

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

Motive Power

1805-1806

Model flash steam plant by Bert Martin

Motive Power

1935

Lancashire Boiler

Motive Power

1889

Horizontal Tandem Compound Engine, c. 1910

Motive Power

1910

Crossley Brothers Atmospheric Gas Engine

Motive Power

1874

Pre-production model of a Howden HWP 300 Wind Turbine and Landrover

Motive Power

1980-1983

High Speed Vertical Steam Engine, c. 1900

Motive Power

1900

Two drawings of the Elsecar Pumping Engine

Motive Power

Crossley gas engine

Motive Power

c.1920

Undershot waterwheel

Motive Power

1820

Beam engine and associated component

Motive Power

1820-40

AEI Turbine Generator Model

Motive Power

1950-1969

National Horizontal Gas Engine

Motive Power

1932-1940

Two Clupet Piston Rings, patented by B. Clews and

Motive Power

Inverted Vertical Steam Engine, 1848-1850

Motive Power

1848-1850

Chadwick Vertical Steam Engine

Motive Power

1860

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

Motive Power

c.1948

steam turbine

Motive Power

1956

Drawing of Newcomen engine at Caprington Colliery

Motive Power

Amsler's planimeter by Elliott

Motive Power

Robey Portable Steam Engine, c. 1938

Motive Power

1938