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'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Rotative Compound Beam Engine, 1881

1968-1971

Mill Engine

1903

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

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

1898

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Piston and Rod, from Newcomen Pumping Engine 'Old Sarah'

1815

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Sectional Model of a Beam Engine, 1866.

1866

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

1892

Single cylinder non-condensing horizontal engine, Corliss valve gear, by John Musgrave & Sons Ltd, Bolton, 1898. Part sectioned to show valves, scale 1:6

Horizontal Engine with Corliss Valve Gear, c. 1898

1898

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

1791

Remains of a Cornish pumping engine, viz "Old Bess", by Boulton, Watt and Company and Soho Manufactory, England, 1777

Remains of a Cornish pumping engine

1777

Double-acting rotative steam engine by Boulton & Watt, 1797. Atkinson's Engine, formerly Maud's Engine. In use at the chemical works at 66 Aldersgate Street until c. 1884.

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt

1797

Model of an independent type 'Cabinet' rotative beam engine, with self-supporting iron frame and cistern bed, made by Boulton, Watt & Co., and owned by James Watt, c1813, with tin container, for cigarettes, containing nineteen steel flat washers, fourteen slotted brass dome-head machine screws and an ‘L’ shaped flat piece of wood.

Model, of an 'Independent' type beam engine by Boulton, Watt & Co., 1813

1812-1814

Number 1 forced lubrication, totally enclosed quick revolution 20 hp (stationary) engine, number 253, by G. E. Belliss & Co with dynamo, by Elwell Parker Dynamo Electric Contruction Corporation Ld., Wolverhampton, mounted on combination baseplate; Pressure gauge dial manufactured for Belliss by E. Bourgon, Paris

High Speed Engine with Forced Lubrication

1891

Conjectural model of Trevithick's first railway locomotive, the "Penydarren Locomotive", 1804, on wooden base with rails, scale 1:8, made by Walter W. Mason, 18 1/2 x 31 x 11 1/2 inches

Model of Trevithick's first railway locomotive 'Pen-y-Darren'

1804

Model Maudslay single cylinder oscillating steam engine made by J. Spiller, Battersea, c. 1820

Maudslay Oscillating Engine

1820

Maker’s plate for horizontal cross-compound mill engine by Burnley Ironworks for Finsley View Mill, Harle Syke, Burnley, 1903

Maker�s plate for horizontal cross-compound mill engine by Burnley Ironworks for Finsley View Mill

1903

Model, (scale 1:12), of breast shot water wheel ventilated buckets with rack and pinion operated sluice, by Whitmore & Binyon, Wickham Market, Suffolk, England, 1883-1891.

Breast-shot Water Wheel, c. 1888

1883-1891

Cast iron chain pulley 18 inches in diameter, early 19th century

Cast iron chain pulley 18 inches in diameter

1801-1830

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

Willans Triple-expansion Engine, 1884-1887

1884-1887

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

Model of Murray's portable beam engine

1808