2006

SJ6604 : Enginuity, Coalbrookdale - beam engine

taken 17 years ago, near to Coalbrookdale, Telford And Wrekin, England

Enginuity, Coalbrookdale - beam engine
Enginuity, Coalbrookdale - beam engine
This is a single cylinder rotative beam engine of the 1800-1825 period and used by the Coalbrookdale Company at one of their local coal mines. From 1854 to 1929 it drove mixing machinery in the company's tile and brick works at Lightmoor, Shropshire. It then spent a long period on display at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, USA before being repatriated. It is set up to be turned by hand using a wheel driving onto the flywheel rim as part of the hands-on science experience in this museum.

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Category: Steam engines
This photo is linked from: Articles: · Beam Engines in the UK Automatic Clusters: · Display at Enginuity [3] ·
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SJ6604, 239 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Chris Allen   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Saturday, 14 October, 2006   (more nearby)
Submitted
Sunday, 19 December, 2010
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SJ 6676 0463 [10m precision]
WGS84: 52:38.3034N 2:29.5579W
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OSGB36: geotagged! SJ 6676 0463
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Northwest (about 315 degrees)
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