Each beam engine has a 13 tonne beam, 24 tonne flywheel and is the height of a 4-storey building. Burton-upon-Trent produced an enormous amount of sewage for a small town, mainly brewery waste, which ...

The Cornish Beam Engine (1834) was originally developed to pump out floodwater from the deep mines that are found in Cornwall. The up and down motion of the piston in the cylinder is transmitted by ...

Anybody who has dug a trench more than a few feet deep will have found the obvious problem: Water. Even in the arid heat of the Arabian desert water is never far away, and it presents real problems ...

1812 Boulton and Watt Cornish beam engine needs state-of-the-art sensors to monitor position, speed and acceleration of the piston. Aim – Monitor Position, Speed and Acceleration of a Piston in a Beam ...

The Courier have teamed up with our friends at Almond Valley Heritage Trust to bring our readers stories from West Lothian’s past. This time: There’s Something in the Atmosphere at Colinshiels. Thomas ...

Leicester's Abbey Pumping Station Museum will hold a family fun day this weekend to celebrate its 50th anniversary. The event, on Sunday, August 20, will see the pumping station’s beam engines in ...

Each beam engine has a 13 tonne beam, 24 tonne flywheel and is the height of a 4-storey building. Burton-upon-Trent produced an enormous amount of sewage for a small town, mainly brewery waste, which ...

This object is huge and is the only one in the world still in its original setting. In 1874, the Prestongrange Coal and Iron Company bought this second-hand steam-powered Cornish Beam Engine to tackle ...