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Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884

1884

Generating Set with Willans Compound Engine, 1887

1887

Armington-Sims High Speed Steam Engine, 1888

1888

'No dead centre' Steam Engine, 1887

1887-1893

Inverted Vertical Steam Engine, 1848-1850

1848-1850

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

1805-1806

Robey Portable Steam Engine, c. 1938

1938

Triple-expansion Engine driving two dynamos, c. 1930

1930 (original); 1984 (model)

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Vertical Steam Engine, 1891

1891

Watt's Pumping Engine 'Old Bess', 1777

1777 (original); 1894 (model)

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

Overtype Compound Steam Engine

1924-1937

Willans Three-crank High Speed Steam Engine, 1884

1884
Parsons' original Steam Turbine generator,1884

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884.

1884
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

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

Drawing of Sentinel steam engine

1920
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
Locomobile steam car engine and parts, 1902

Locomobile steam car engine and parts, 1902

1902
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
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.

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

Willans Triple-expansion Engine, 1884-1887

1884-1887
National steam engine for a Clarkson steam vehicle, c. 1916

National steam engine for a Clarkson steam vehicle

circa 1916
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
Model of Savery's engine.

Model Savery engine, before 1754.

1698-1744