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'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884

1884

Watt's Pumping Engine 'Old Bess', 1777

1777 (original); 1894 (model)

Inverted Vertical Steam Engine, 1848-1850

1848-1850

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

1805-1806

Triple-expansion Engine driving two dynamos, c. 1930

1930 (original); 1984 (model)

Generating Set with Willans Compound Engine, 1887

1887

Robey Portable Steam Engine, c. 1938

1938

Armington-Sims High Speed Steam Engine, 1888

1888

'No dead centre' Steam Engine, 1887

1887-1893

Overtype Compound Steam Engine

1924-1937

Vertical Steam Engine, 1891

1891

Model (Scale 1:8), semi-portable overtype engine, by Robey & Co.

-1920

Undertype Semi-portable Engine

1867-1900

Chandler's High Speed Engine, 1902

1902

Willans Three-crank High Speed Steam Engine, 1884

1884
Parsons' original Steam Turbine generator,1884

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884.

1884
Sectioned original Willans Central Valve engine, 1887, on wooden stand.

Willans Triple-expansion Engine, 1884-1887

1884-1887
Model of Savery's engine.

Model Savery engine, before 1754.

1698-1744
Coloured drawing of general arrangement of Sentinel steam engine. No. 3485, (scale 1:4), c. 1920?

Drawing of Sentinel steam engine

1920
Drawing of Clarkson compound 'Vee' steam engine, section through L.P. cylinder and H.P. piston valve (scale 1:2)

Drawing of a Clarkson steam engine

Working model (scale about 1:8) of a double-acting beam engine with sun and planet motion; steam is distributed by a cock.

Model Boulton and Watt condensing engine, c 1800.

Locomobile steam car engine and parts, 1902

Locomobile steam car engine and parts, 1902

1902
Beam engine made by John Penn and Sons, Greenwich 1870, for organ blowing, 2 cylinders side by side, 7 in. diam by 2 ft in stroke

Beam engine for organ blowing, 1870.

1870
Parsons' Axial Flow Steam Turbine with dynamo constructed for 60 K.W. Generator, 1901; installed at the National Physical Laboratory where it ran until 1913.

Parsons' Axial Flow Steam Turbine with dynamo constructed for 60 K.W. Generator

1901
Engine and boiler etc. of a Locomobile steam motor car, 1900, sectioned, mounted on stand representing part of a car.

Engine and boiler from Locomobile steam motor car

1900
Steam Table engine, 24" stroke, by Maudslay, Sons & Field, 1840, with flywheel, outer bearing, steam stop-valve; and also one original steam piston-valve, shaft coupling, piston, piston sleeves, piston rings, plumber block for drive & parcels of spares

Table Engine by Maudslay, Sons & Field, 1840.

1840
Drawing of Clarkson compound 'Vee' steam engine, section along crankshaft (scale 1:2)

Drawing of a Clarkson steam engine

Drawing of Clarkson compound 'Vee' steam engine - elevation, and section of pumps (scale 1:2)

Drawing of a Clarkson steam engine

Grasshopper steam engine c. 1855 probably by Easton, Amos & Sons, Southwark, London.

'Grasshopper' Engine, c. 1855

1855
Model scale 1:12 in part section of early form of Newcomen engine and pump. Based on example built in the early 18th century at Fresnes, Val-de-Marne in France.

Model of Newcomen Pumping Engine, from Fresnes, France, c. 1735

1730-1740
National steam engine for a Clarkson steam vehicle, c. 1916

National steam engine for a Clarkson steam vehicle

circa 1916