The Smethwick Engine is a Watt steam engine made by Boulton and Watt, which was installed near Birmingham, England, and was brought into service in May...
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in 1891, leaving Smethwick in the County of Staffordshire.[citation needed] The world's oldest working engine, the Smethwick Engine, made by Boulton &...
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Steam engines were constructed at either end of the Smethwick Summit to pump water used in the operation of the locks back to the summit. The Smethwick Engine...
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working engine; one of the first rotative steam engines The oldest working engine, the Smethwick Engine, and the second oldest, the Whitbread Engine, are...
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surviving Watt engine is Old Bess of 1777, now in the Science Museum, London. The oldest working engine in the world is the Smethwick Engine, brought into...
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1664 – 5 August 1729) was an English inventor, creator of the atmospheric engine in 1712, Baptist preacher by calling and ironmonger by trade. He was born...
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planetarium and a collection that includes the Smethwick Engine, the world's oldest working steam engine. Other science-based museums include the National...
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engines are fixed steam engines used for pumping or driving mills and factories, and for power generation. They are distinct from locomotive engines used...
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Boulton and Watt (category Companies based in Smethwick)
at their Soho Foundry in Smethwick, near Birmingham, England. Between 1775 and 1800, Boulton and Watt produced 496 engines. The partnership was passed...
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Ryhope Engines Museum (Ryhope, England) – twin rotative beam engines; built 1868. Smethwick Engine (Smethwick, England) – oldest working steam engine in the...
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the Smethwick Engine. Back pumping at locks Ashtead Titford Perry Barr Walsall Dudley Parkhead Back pumping between levels Ocker Hill Smethwick Summit...
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engineer. In 1765, he began experimenting with working models of steam-engine-powered vehicles for the French Army, intended for transporting cannons...
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The Engine Arm or Birmingham Feeder Arm near Smethwick, West Midlands, England, is a short canal which was originally part of a feeder tunnel for a pumping...
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Single- and double-acting cylinders (redirect from Double-action piston engine)
In mechanical engineering, the cylinders of reciprocating engines are often classified by whether they are single- or double-acting, depending on how...
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Connecting rod (category Engine technology)
A connecting rod, also called a 'con rod', is the part of a piston engine which connects the piston to the crankshaft. Together with the crank, the connecting...
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Kinneil Engine (1768) Old Bess (1777) Chacewater Mine engine (1778) Smethwick Engine (1779) Resolution (1781) Rotative beam Soho Manufactory engine (1782)...
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Kinneil Engine (1768) Old Bess (1777) Chacewater Mine engine (1778) Smethwick Engine (1779) Resolution (1781) Rotative beam Soho Manufactory engine (1782)...
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the Cromford Canal in Derbyshire Smethwick Engine, now removed from original site to Birmingham Thinktank New Smethwick Pumping Station (now part of Galton...
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Hydrolock (redirect from Engine lock)
entering the device. In the case of a reciprocating internal combustion engine, a piston cannot complete its travel and mechanical failure may occur if...
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Kinneil Engine (1768) Old Bess (1777) Chacewater Mine engine (1778) Smethwick Engine (1779) Resolution (1781) Rotative beam Soho Manufactory engine (1782)...
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Boulton & Watt ever building another engine of this dimension. Smethwick Engine – the oldest working Watt steam engine Wikimedia Commons has media related...
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the firm of Boulton & Watt and worked for them in Cornwall, as a steam engine erector for ten years, spending most of the rest of his life in Birmingham...
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back to the summit – one at Spon Lane locks, and one at Smethwick locks: the Smethwick Engine. When the summit became too busy John Smeaton designed a...
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Smethwick is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, in the West Midlands of England. The area is centered on Bearwood Road; one of Smethwick’s...
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Lancashire inventor Samuel Crompton. Boulton and Watt's Smethwick Engine, now the oldest working engine in the world, is brought into service (May)). A joint...
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of Charts and Sailing Directions in Stockholm. Boulton and Watt's Smethwick Engine of 1779 (superseded 1892) is dismantled for preservation by the Birmingham...
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(stucco) for use as an exterior plaster. May – Boulton and Watt's Smethwick Engine is brought into service for pumping on the Birmingham Canal Navigations;...
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A house-built engine is a stationary steam engine that is built into an engine house, such that it uses the masonry of the engine house as an integral...
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Crosshead (category Engine technology)
in a trunk engine. Therefore, the longitudinal dimension of the crosshead must be matched to the stroke of the engine. On smaller engines, the connecting...
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1955S00557 "Engines (set 2)". Birmingham Stories. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 7 March 2015. "World's oldest working steam engine is Birmingham...
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