2006
SJ6604 : Enginuity, Coalbrookdale - beam engine
taken 17 years ago, near to Coalbrookdale, Telford And Wrekin, England
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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