Each beam engine has a 13 tonne beam, 24 tonne flywheel and is the height of a 4-storey building. Burton-upon-Trent produced an enormous amount of sewage for a small town, mainly brewery waste ...

Anthracite-Lehigh Valley Section had a goal of nominating an engineering landmark from the section’s geographic area for ...

The steam cylinder piston goes down under the ... onto a barge for the journey up the Thames River. There are smaller beam engines such as one from Boulton and Watt that can be seen at the Kew ...

The picture shows two mahogany clad steam cylinders which powered the Gimson beam engines of 1885. Comments are closed for this object What's this? Most of the content on A History of the World is ...