A Cornish engine is a type of steam engine developed in Cornwall, England, mainly for pumping water from a mine. It is a form of beam engine that uses...

pumping engines on the Cornish system (often known as Cornish engines) continued to be built new throughout the 19th century. Older Watt engines were updated...

relatively efficient. The Cornish engine had irregular motion and torque through the cycle, limiting it mainly to pumping. Cornish engines were used in mines...

existed there. Consequently, the Cornish beam engines became world-famous, as they remain among the most massive beam engines ever constructed. Because of...

The Cornish people or Cornish (Cornish: Kernowyon, Old English: Cornƿīelisċ) are an ethnic group native to, or associated with Cornwall and a recognised...

16 October 1837, Guernsey) was a Cornish engineer, most famous for inventing a high-pressure compound steam engine. In this way he made an outstanding...

governing device used for early single-acting beam engines, particularly atmospheric engines and Cornish engines. It was a kind of water clock. The cataract...

Savery atmospheric engine (1700) Newcomen engine (1712) Watt engine (1775) Hornblower (1781) Trevithick (1799) Woolf (1804) Cornish engine (1812) McNaught'ed...

engines valve timings can be driven by eccentrics or cranks, but in non-rotative beam engines these options are not available. In the Cornish engine valves...

Prosper. This became known as the Cornish engine, and was the most efficient in the world at that time. Other Cornish engineers contributed to its development...

(120 m) was the Cornish engine which had been used at the Comstock Lode in the 1870s. They bought and installed the huge Cornish engines in the Contention...

water pumping steam engines dating from 1820 to 1910. It is the home of the world's largest collection of working Cornish engines, including the Grand...

B. (1966). The Cornish Beam Engine (New ed.). Truro: D. Bradford Barton Ltd. Burt, Roger; Waite, Peter; Burnley, Ray (1987). Cornish Mines: Metalliferous...

The Chapin Mine Steam Pump Engine, also known as The Cornish Pump, is a steam-driven pump located at the corner of Kent Street and Kimberly Avenue in...

Cornish Pump may refer to: Chapin Mine Steam Pump Engine, a steam engine located in Iron Mountain, Michigan, commonly called The Cornish Pump Cornish...

electric pumps. This was the last new Cornish engine to be built. It remains in situ in its Grade I listed engine house. The quarry was one of the first...

Lean's Engine Reporter was founded in 1810 to publicize the performances of different Cornish engines used for mine pumping in Cornwall. The first Reporter...

result of using the exhaust of a high-pressure engine to power a condensing engine. The Cornish engine was notable for its relatively high efficiency...

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South Shields Water Company. The engine house contains a pair of 72" single-acting non-rotative Cornish beam engines by Davy Bros of Sheffield, dating...

1781, this technique was first employed on a Cornish beam engine in 1804. Around 1850, compound engines were first introduced into Lancashire textile...

the engines. Number 1 engine, built by Boulton and Watt in 1812 and rebuilt as a Cornish engine in the 1840s, is a single-acting, condensing engine with...

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a Cornish engineer who contributed to the use of high pressure steam engines for transportation and mining applications. In 1935 the Cornish Engines Preservation...

A W engine is a type of piston engine where three or four cylinder banks use the same crankshaft, resembling the letter W when viewed from the front....

England, UK. Its main attraction is that it has the world's only Cornish beam engine still operated by steam on its original site. There is also a visitor...

century. In the Cornish examples the motive power was provided by waterwheels, or one of the mine's steam engines. The steam engine or water wheel would...

England. He was the designer of the Harvey's Engine, a Cornish beam engine initially used as a pumping engine as of 1892 in the Carn Brea mine and from 1924...

American politician in Mississippi William Sims (engineer), pioneer of the Cornish engine William L. Sims II (1896–1977), American businessman William Sims (American...

London Waterworks Company, he was responsible for introducing the Cornish pumping engine. Born in Shrewsbury, the fourth son of John Wicksteed, he was educated...