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Beam Engines
Series: Shire Library
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Beam Engines
The beam engine became the most used form of steam engine in factories, mines and waterworks until well into the second half of the nineteenth century. This book outlines the development of the beam engine and gives some explanation of why it was so successful.
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Over three hundred years ago, the first steps were made towards the use of steam power. Most of these steps went beyond the boundary of available technology. The reliable drainage of metal and coal mines was the incentive.
Thomas Newcomen, using contemporary technology in his beam engine, was the first to achieve success in 1712. Improved by James Watt, the beam engine became the most used form of steam engine in factories, mines, and waterworks until well into the second half of the nineteenth century. Examples were still in use into the 1970s.
Beam Engines outlines the development of the beam engine and provides some explanation of why it was so successful.
Series: Shire Library
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780747805441
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 16 December 2002
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Shire Publications
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 149.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 115g
Pages: 40
About the Author
As a boy, Geoffrey Hayes was enthralled by stories of beam engines told by his two grandfathers. His father, as a new starter in a cotton mill, mopped the floor of an 1857 beam engine house every Saturday morning. A gift of Robert H. Thurston's book 'A History of the Steam Engine' intensified the interest in beam engines. Pilgrimages were made to Cornwall to see the surviving engines at he tin mines. Mr Hayes became involved professionally with the restoration of the Leicester beam engines and the Caprington Colliery engine in the Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh.
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