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Steam-engines

Heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid

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Images referencing Steam-engines

13 images from works
  • A shaving machine powered by steam. Coloured etching by R. Seymour.
  • Engineering: a polishing machine (top), and a walking machine (below). Etching.
  • Samuel's patent locomotive feed engine. Samuel's patent continuous expansive locomotive engine.
  • A coachman with a whip and a woman with a kettle: the man mistrusts anything using steam (implying steam trains). Pencil and ink wash by S. Jenner, ca. 1830.
  • Engineering: a Cornish steam engine used for pumping water in London.
  • Types of steam-driven vehicles and flying machines. Colour process print after Robert Seymour, ca. 1830.
  • Simpson and Shipton's patent marine steam engines / W. J. Lindsey del. ; G.D. Dempsey direx. ; Martin & Hood lith.
  • A portable steam engine. Engraving by C. Livesey, 1805.
  • Longitudinal section of the Boulton & Watt engine erected at the East London Water Works, Old Ford / Thomas Wicksteed ; G. Gladwin.
  • Men hauling excavated soil up a shaft in a bucket suspended from a rope, driven by a steam hoist. Wood engraving, 1868.
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Works from the collections

Great Britain
Steam-boilers
Furnaces
Smoke prevention
Boilers
Fireplaces
Heating
Fuel
Distillation apparatus
Locomotives