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

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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.

Engineering: a portable steam engine (front elevation), and a hay-making machine (side elevation and plan). Lithograph by Martin and Hood, 1852, after W. J. Lindsey.

Engineering: a portable (wheeled) steam engine. Lithograph by Martin and Hood, 1852, after W. J. Lindsey.

Specification of Joseph Bramah : steam engines and boilers.

Specification of William Wood : apparatus for condensing smoke from furnaces &c.

Specification of William Church : steam boilers and propellers for vessels.

Specification of Thomas Preston, junior : fire-places for steam boilers.

Specification of Nathaniel Partridge : fixing steam boilers, coppers, &c.

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Steam-engines

Images from the collections

Images about Steam-engines

Works from the collections

Specification of Joseph Bramah : steam engines and boilers.

Specification of William Wood : apparatus for condensing smoke from furnaces &c.

Specification of William Church : steam boilers and propellers for vessels.

Specification of Thomas Preston, junior : fire-places for steam boilers.

Specification of Nathaniel Partridge : fixing steam boilers, coppers, &c.

Steam-engines

Images from the collections

Images about Steam-engines

Works from the collections

Specification of Joseph Bramah : steam engines and boilers.

Specification of William Wood : apparatus for condensing smoke from furnaces &c.

Specification of William Church : steam boilers and propellers for vessels.

Specification of Thomas Preston, junior : fire-places for steam boilers.

Specification of Nathaniel Partridge : fixing steam boilers, coppers, &c.

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