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Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788.

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1788

Mill Engine

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1903

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

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1717-1725

Working model of Hero's Aeolipile and steam boiler

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100-1 BCE; 1501-1600; 1914

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

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1819

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

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1797-1804

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

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1805-1806

National Diesel Engine

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1928

Bust of James Watt in Parian Ware made by Josiah W

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after 1859

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

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1795-1805 (original)

Model of Sun and Planet Gearing

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1782-1784

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

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1785

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Lancashire Boiler

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1889

Haydock Colliery Steam Engine

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1830

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

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c.1948

Vertical Steam Engine, 1891

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1891

Drawing of the "Old Sarah" engine, Newmarket, Silk

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

Watt's second separate condenser, 1765.

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1765

Metropolitan-Vickers Steam turbine and Generator

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1937-1938

Collycroft worsted textile mill, 1790

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1790

Model of Hopkinsons' Torsion-Bar steam safety valv

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Crossley Horizontal Single-cylinder Engine

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1886

Crossley Type IHD4 Diesel Engine

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1960

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

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1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

A. E. & H. Robinson Gas Engine

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1907
Beam engine, unsigned, British, 1820-1840

Beam engine

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1820-1840

AEI Turbine Generator Model

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1950-1969

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

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1980-1983

Maudslay Oscillating Engine

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1801-1830

Overtype Compound Steam Engine

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1924-1937

Example, compound motion variable expansion slide

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Samuel Clegg Steam Engine Model

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1825

Babcock & Wilcox Boilers, 1946

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1946

steam turbine

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1956

Maihak engine indicator No.7077 with accessories i

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W. H. Bailey Hot-Air Engine

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1880
100 K.W. Radial Flow Steam Turbine alternator with Generator, by C. A. Parsons and Company, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom, 1891. Partly sectioned; (Radial flow, for the Cambridge Electric Supply Company installed in 1892)

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

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1891

Robey Portable Steam Engine, c. 1938

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1938

Poncelet's Water Wheel, 1824

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1824 (original); 1891 (model)

Atmospheric engine at Pentrich Colliery

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Richard's patent steam engine indicator in wooden box

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Elm Street Mill Cross-Compound Steam Engine

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1926

Firgrove Mill Steam Engine

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1907

National Diesel Engine Model

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1930

Example of a Dardelet Threadlock Bolt and Nut (1"

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Central-valve high speed steam engine, working model, scale 1:4, sectioned through one cylinder and crank case, Willans and Robinson Limited, Rugby, Warwickshire, England, 1901

Willans central-valve high speed steam engine 1901

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1901

"Trevithick" type return flue steam boiler of cast

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1842-1847

Complete Blade Ring for "Brush Ljungstrom" Turbine

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Model of breast water wheel with pentrough sluice

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1868