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id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Early configuration of the steam engine utilising a rocking beam to connect major components.</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Watt7783.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Watt7783.png/220px-Watt7783.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="283" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Watt7783.png/330px-Watt7783.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Watt7783.png/440px-Watt7783.png 2x" data-file-width="950" data-file-height="1224" /></a><figcaption>A <a href="/wiki/Watt_steam_engine" title="Watt steam engine">Watt engine</a>: showing entry of steam and water</figcaption></figure> <p>A <b>beam engine</b> is a type of <a href="/wiki/Steam_engine" title="Steam engine">steam engine</a> where a pivoted overhead <a href="/wiki/Beam_(structure)" title="Beam (structure)">beam</a> is used to apply the force from a vertical <a href="/wiki/Piston" title="Piston">piston</a> to a vertical <a href="/wiki/Connecting_rod" title="Connecting rod">connecting rod</a>. This configuration, with the engine directly driving a pump, was first used by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Newcomen" title="Thomas Newcomen">Thomas Newcomen</a> around 1705 to remove water from mines in <a href="/wiki/Cornwall" title="Cornwall">Cornwall</a>. The efficiency of the engines was improved by engineers including <a href="/wiki/James_Watt" title="James Watt">James Watt</a>, who added a separate <a href="/wiki/Condenser_(heat_transfer)" title="Condenser (heat transfer)">condenser</a>; <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Hornblower" title="Jonathan Hornblower">Jonathan Hornblower</a> and <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Woolf" title="Arthur Woolf">Arthur Woolf</a>, who <a href="/wiki/Compound_steam_engine" title="Compound steam engine">compounded the cylinders</a>; and <a href="/wiki/William_McNaught_(Glasgow)" title="William McNaught (Glasgow)">William McNaught</a>, who devised a method of compounding an existing engine. Beam engines were first used to pump water out of mines or into canals but could be used to pump water to supplement the flow for a waterwheel powering a <a href="/wiki/Watermill" title="Watermill">mill</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Uk-crofton-pumping-station-beam-gallery.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Uk-crofton-pumping-station-beam-gallery.jpg/220px-Uk-crofton-pumping-station-beam-gallery.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="211" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Uk-crofton-pumping-station-beam-gallery.jpg/330px-Uk-crofton-pumping-station-beam-gallery.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Uk-crofton-pumping-station-beam-gallery.jpg/440px-Uk-crofton-pumping-station-beam-gallery.jpg 2x" data-file-width="751" data-file-height="720" /></a><figcaption>The cast-iron beam of the 1812 <a href="/wiki/Boulton_%26_Watt" class="mw-redirect" title="Boulton & Watt">Boulton & Watt</a> engine at <a href="/wiki/Crofton_Pumping_Station" title="Crofton Pumping Station">Crofton Pumping Station</a> – the oldest working, in situ example in the world</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cruquius-gemaal-achter.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Cruquius-gemaal-achter.jpg/220px-Cruquius-gemaal-achter.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="166" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Cruquius-gemaal-achter.jpg/330px-Cruquius-gemaal-achter.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Cruquius-gemaal-achter.jpg/440px-Cruquius-gemaal-achter.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1632" data-file-height="1232" /></a><figcaption>Back of <a href="/wiki/Museum_De_Cruquius" title="Museum De Cruquius">Museum De Cruquius</a> near <a href="/wiki/Amsterdam" title="Amsterdam">Amsterdam</a>, an old pumping station used to pump dry the <a href="/wiki/Haarlemmermeer" title="Haarlemmermeer">Haarlemmermeer</a>. It shows the beams of the pumping engine and the 9 meter drop in water level from the <a href="/wiki/Spaarne" title="Spaarne">Spaarne</a> river. The beam engine is the largest ever constructed, and was in use till 1933.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wanlockhead_Beam_Engine.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Wanlockhead_Beam_Engine.jpg/220px-Wanlockhead_Beam_Engine.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Wanlockhead_Beam_Engine.jpg/330px-Wanlockhead_Beam_Engine.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Wanlockhead_Beam_Engine.jpg/440px-Wanlockhead_Beam_Engine.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>The remains of a water-powered beam engine at <a href="/wiki/Wanlockhead" title="Wanlockhead">Wanlockhead</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>rotative beam engine</b> is a later design of beam engine where the connecting rod drives a <a href="/wiki/Flywheel" title="Flywheel">flywheel</a> by means of a <a href="/wiki/Crank_(mechanism)" title="Crank (mechanism)">crank</a> (or, historically, by means of a <a href="/wiki/Sun_and_planet_gear" title="Sun and planet gear">sun and planet gear</a>). These beam engines could be used to directly power the <a href="/wiki/Line_shaft" title="Line shaft">line-shafting</a> in a <a href="/wiki/Cotton_mill" title="Cotton mill">mill</a>. They also could be used to power <a href="/wiki/Steam_ship" class="mw-redirect" title="Steam ship">steam ships</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Beam_engine&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The first beam engines were water-powered and used to pump water from mines. A preserved example may be seen at the Straitsteps Lead Mine in <a href="/wiki/Wanlockhead_beam_engine" title="Wanlockhead beam engine">Wanlockhead</a> in <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a>. </p><p>Beam engines were extensively used to power <a href="/wiki/Pump" title="Pump">pumps</a> on the English <a href="/wiki/Canal" title="Canal">canal</a> system when it was expanded by means of <a href="/wiki/Canal_lock" class="mw-redirect" title="Canal lock">locks</a> early in the <a href="/wiki/Industrial_Revolution" title="Industrial Revolution">Industrial Revolution</a>, and also to drain water from <a href="/wiki/Mining" title="Mining">mines</a> in the same period, and as <a href="/wiki/Winding_engine" title="Winding engine">winding engines</a>. </p><p>The first steam-related beam engine was developed by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Newcomen" title="Thomas Newcomen">Thomas Newcomen</a>. This was not, strictly speaking, steam powered, as the steam introduced below the piston was condensed to create a partial vacuum thus allowing atmospheric pressure to push down the piston. It was therefore called an Atmospheric Engine. The <a href="/wiki/Newcomen_atmospheric_engine" title="Newcomen atmospheric engine">Newcomen atmospheric engine</a> was adopted by many mines in <a href="/wiki/Cornwall" title="Cornwall">Cornwall</a> and elsewhere, but it was relatively inefficient and consumed a large quantity of fuel. The engine was improved by <a href="/wiki/John_Smeaton" title="John Smeaton">John Smeaton</a> but <a href="/wiki/James_Watt" title="James Watt">James Watt</a> resolved the main inefficiencies of the Newcomen engine in his <a href="/wiki/Watt_steam_engine" title="Watt steam engine">Watt steam engine</a> by the addition of a separate condenser, thus allowing the cylinder to remain hot. Technically this was still an atmospheric engine until (under subsequent patents) he enclosed the upper part of the cylinder, introducing steam to also push the piston down. This made it a true steam engine<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Accuracy_dispute#Disputed_statement" title="Wikipedia:Accuracy dispute"><span title="nothing requires a steam engine to be double-acting to be a "true steam engine". (September 2024)">dubious</span></a> – <a href="/wiki/Talk:Beam_engine#Dubious" title="Talk:Beam engine">discuss</a></i>]</sup> and arguably confirms him as the inventor of the steam engine. He also patented the <a href="/wiki/Centrifugal_governor" title="Centrifugal governor">centrifugal governor</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Parallel_motion" class="mw-redirect" title="Parallel motion">parallel motion</a>. the latter allowed the replacement of chains round an arch head and thus allowed its use as a rotative engine. </p><p>His patents remained in place until the start of the 19th Century and some say that this held back development. However, in reality development had been ongoing by others and at the end of the patent period there was an explosion of new ideas and improvements. Watt's beam engines were used commercially in much larger numbers and many continued to run for 100 years or more. </p><p>Watt held patents on key aspects of his engine's design, but his rotative engine was equally restricted by <a href="/wiki/James_Pickard" title="James Pickard">James Pickard</a>'s patent of the simple crank. The beam engine went on to be considerably improved and enlarged in the tin- and copper-rich areas of south west England, which enabled the draining of the deep mines that existed there. Consequently, the <a href="/wiki/Cornish_engine" title="Cornish engine">Cornish beam engines</a> became world-famous, as they remain among the most massive beam engines ever constructed. </p><p>Because of the number of patents on various parts of the engines and the consequences of patent infringements, examples exist of Beam Engines with no makers name on any of the parts (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hollycombe.co.uk/estate">Hollycombe Steam Collection</a>). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Rotative_beam_engines">Rotative beam engines</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Beam_engine&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Rotative beam engines"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Thomas_Horn_Beam_Engine.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Thomas_Horn_Beam_Engine.JPG/220px-Thomas_Horn_Beam_Engine.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Thomas_Horn_Beam_Engine.JPG/330px-Thomas_Horn_Beam_Engine.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Thomas_Horn_Beam_Engine.JPG/440px-Thomas_Horn_Beam_Engine.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2304" data-file-height="1728" /></a><figcaption>A small rotative beam engine, built in 1870 by Thomas Horn to a design by <a href="/wiki/James_Watt" title="James Watt">James Watt</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Crank_(mechanism)" title="Crank (mechanism)">crank</a> is visible at the front, the <a href="/wiki/Flywheel" title="Flywheel">flywheel</a> part-hidden by the engine. (Originally installed in a waterworks in <a href="/wiki/Ashford,_Kent" title="Ashford, Kent">Ashford</a>, now operational and preserved at the <a href="/wiki/Bredgar_and_Wormshill_Light_Railway" title="Bredgar and Wormshill Light Railway">Bredgar and Wormshill Light Railway</a>.)</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Macchina_vapore_Horn_Museo_scienza_e_tecnologia_Milano.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Macchina_vapore_Horn_Museo_scienza_e_tecnologia_Milano.jpg/220px-Macchina_vapore_Horn_Museo_scienza_e_tecnologia_Milano.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Macchina_vapore_Horn_Museo_scienza_e_tecnologia_Milano.jpg/330px-Macchina_vapore_Horn_Museo_scienza_e_tecnologia_Milano.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Macchina_vapore_Horn_Museo_scienza_e_tecnologia_Milano.jpg/440px-Macchina_vapore_Horn_Museo_scienza_e_tecnologia_Milano.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1320" data-file-height="1980" /></a><figcaption>Beam machine by Thomas Horn <a href="/wiki/Museo_Nazionale_della_Scienza_e_della_Tecnologia_%22Leonardo_da_Vinci%22" class="mw-redirect" title="Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia "Leonardo da Vinci"">Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia "Leonardo da Vinci"</a>, Milan.</figcaption></figure> <p>In a rotative beam engine, the piston is mounted vertically, and the <a href="/wiki/Piston_rod" title="Piston rod">piston rod</a> drives the beam as before. A <a href="/wiki/Connecting_rod" title="Connecting rod">connecting rod</a> from the other end of the beam, rather than driving a pump rod, now drives a flywheel. </p><p>Early Watt engines used Watt's patent <a href="/wiki/Sun_and_planet_gear" title="Sun and planet gear">sun and planet gear</a>, rather than a simple crank, as use of the latter was protected by a patent owned by <a href="/wiki/James_Pickard" title="James Pickard">James Pickard</a>. Once the patent had expired, the simple crank was employed universally. Once rotary motion had been achieved a drive belt could be attached beside the flywheel. This transmitted the power to other drive shafts and from these other belts could then be attached to power a variety of static machinery e.g. threshing, grinding or milling machines. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Marine_beam_engines">Marine beam engines</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Beam_engine&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Marine beam engines"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The first steam-powered ships used variants of the rotative beam engine. These <a href="/wiki/Marine_steam_engine" title="Marine steam engine">marine steam engines</a> – known as side-lever, <a href="/wiki/Grasshopper_beam_engine" title="Grasshopper beam engine">grasshopper</a>, crosshead, or 'walking beam', among others – all varied from the original land-based machines by locating the beam or beams in different positions to take up less room on board ship. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Compounding">Compounding</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Beam_engine&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Compounding"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Compound_engine" title="Compound engine">Compounding</a> involves two or more cylinders; low-pressure steam from the first, high-pressure, cylinder is passed to the second cylinder where it expands further and provides more drive. This is the compound effect; the waste steam from this can produce further work if it is then passed into a condenser in the normal way. The first experiment with compounding was conducted by <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Hornblower" title="Jonathan Hornblower">Jonathan Hornblower</a>, who took out a patent in 1781. His first engine was installed at Tincroft Mine, Cornwall. It had two cylinders – one 21-inch (0.53 m) diameter with 6-foot (1.8 m) stroke and one 27-inch (0.69 m) diameter with 8-foot (2.4 m) stroke – placed alongside each other at one end of the beam. The early engines showed little performance gain: the steam pressure was too low, interconnecting pipes were of small diameter and the condenser ineffective.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHills1989147_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHills1989147-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At this time the laws of <a href="/wiki/Thermodynamics" title="Thermodynamics">thermodynamics</a> were not adequately understood, particularly the concept of <a href="/wiki/Absolute_zero" title="Absolute zero">absolute zero</a>. Engineers such as <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Woolf" title="Arthur Woolf">Arthur Woolf</a> were trying to tackle an engineering problem with an imperfect understanding of the physics. In particular, their <a href="/wiki/Valve_gear" title="Valve gear">valve gear</a> was cutting-in at the wrong position in the stroke, not allowing for expansive working in the cylinder. Successful Woolf compound engines were produced in 1814, for the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Wheal_Abraham&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wheal Abraham (page does not exist)">Wheal Abraham</a> copper mine and the <a href="/wiki/Wheal_Vor" title="Wheal Vor">Wheal Vor</a> tin mine.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHills1989153_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHills1989153-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="McNaught_engines">McNaught engines</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Beam_engine&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: McNaught engines"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/William_McNaught_(Glasgow)" title="William McNaught (Glasgow)">William McNaught</a> patented a compound beam engine in 1845. On a beam engine of the standard <a href="/wiki/Boulton_%26_Watt" class="mw-redirect" title="Boulton & Watt">Boulton & Watt</a> design he placed a high-pressure cylinder, on the opposite side of the beam to the existing single cylinder, where the water pump was normally fitted. This had two important effects: it massively reduced the pressure on the beam, and the connecting steam pipe, being long, acted as an expansive receiver – the element missing in the Woolf design.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHills1989157_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHills1989157-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This modification could be made retrospectively, and engines so modified were said to be "McNaughted". The advantages of a compound engine were not significant at pressures under 60 pounds per square inch (410 kPa), but showed at over 100 psi (690 kPa).<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Preserved_beam_engines">Preserved beam engines</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Beam_engine&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Preserved beam engines"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Engineerium_beam_engine_baseplate.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Engineerium_beam_engine_baseplate.jpg/220px-Engineerium_beam_engine_baseplate.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Engineerium_beam_engine_baseplate.jpg/330px-Engineerium_beam_engine_baseplate.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Engineerium_beam_engine_baseplate.jpg/440px-Engineerium_beam_engine_baseplate.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>Baseplate and mahogany lagging, beam engine, <a href="/wiki/British_Engineerium" title="British Engineerium">British Engineerium</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brighton" title="Brighton">Brighton</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abbey_Pumping_Station" title="Abbey Pumping Station">Abbey Pumping Station</a> (<a href="/wiki/Leicester" title="Leicester">Leicester</a>, England) - houses four Woolf compound rotative beam engines built by <a href="/wiki/Gimson_and_Company" title="Gimson and Company">Gimson and Company</a>, Leicester.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bolton_Steam_Museum" title="Bolton Steam Museum">Bolton Steam Museum</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bolton" title="Bolton">Bolton</a>, England) – includes several rotative beam engines originally used to drive mills</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claymills_Pumping_Station" title="Claymills Pumping Station">Claymills Pumping Station</a> (<a href="/wiki/Burton_upon_Trent" title="Burton upon Trent">Burton upon Trent</a>, England) - four Woolf compound, rotative, beam pumping engines; five Lancashire boilers; over thirty auxiliary engines on the site, including the oldest working steam driven dynamo in the country.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coldharbour_Mill" class="mw-redirect" title="Coldharbour Mill">Coldharbour Mill</a> (<a href="/wiki/Uffculme" title="Uffculme">Uffculme</a>, Devon) - 1867 <a href="/wiki/Peter_Brotherhood" title="Peter Brotherhood">Kittoe and Brotherhood</a> beam engine plus Pollit & Wigzell 300 hp cross compound engine. In steam most Bank Holidays driving the rope race, together with other smaller machines.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coultershaw_Beam_Pump" class="mw-redirect" title="Coultershaw Beam Pump">Coultershaw Beam Pump</a> (<a href="/wiki/West_Sussex" title="West Sussex">West Sussex</a>, England) – preserved water-powered beam engine from 1782.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crofton_Pumping_Station" title="Crofton Pumping Station">Crofton Pumping Station</a> (<a href="/wiki/Great_Bedwyn" title="Great Bedwyn">Great Bedwyn</a>, England) – two engines, including the oldest working 'Cornish' engine, in its original location, in the world (1812).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crossness_Pumping_Station" title="Crossness Pumping Station">Crossness Pumping Station</a> (<a href="/wiki/Abbey_Wood" title="Abbey Wood">Abbey Wood</a>, England) – set of four rotative beam engines: the largest surviving working examples.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dogdyke_Engine" class="mw-redirect" title="Dogdyke Engine">Dogdyke Engine</a> (<a href="/wiki/Tattershall" title="Tattershall">Tattershall</a>, England) – drainage engine and <a href="/wiki/Scoop_wheel" title="Scoop wheel">scoop wheel</a>, steamed summer weekends.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastney_Beam_Engine_House" title="Eastney Beam Engine House">Eastney Beam Engine House</a> (<a href="/wiki/Portsmouth" title="Portsmouth">Portsmouth</a>, England) – contains two rotative beam engines for sewage-pumping, dating from 1887.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elsecar_Heritage_Centre" title="Elsecar Heritage Centre">Elsecar Heritage Centre</a> (<a href="/wiki/Elsecar" title="Elsecar">Elsecar</a>, England) – the only surviving Newcomen engine (in the world) to have remained in its original location (1795).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Garlogie_Beam_Engine" title="Garlogie Beam Engine">Garlogie Beam Engine</a> (Aberdeenshire) - <a href="/wiki/Boulton_and_Watt" title="Boulton and Watt">Boulton and Watt</a> engine, with beam from 1805.</li> <li>Goulburn Waterworks (<a href="/wiki/Goulburn" title="Goulburn">Goulburn</a>, Australia) - Appleby Bros Beam Engine (1883) 120 hp in working order still in the original pump house building.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grazebrook_beam_engine" title="Grazebrook beam engine">Grazebrook beam engine</a>- A large pumping Boulton & Watt designed with a 42-inch (1.1 m) bore on static display on the Dartmouth roundabout on the <a href="/wiki/A38(M)" class="mw-redirect" title="A38(M)">A38(M)</a> in <a href="/wiki/Birmingham" title="Birmingham">Birmingham</a>, England.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hollycombe_Steam_Collection" title="Hollycombe Steam Collection">Hollycombe Steam Collection</a> (<a href="/wiki/Liphook" title="Liphook">Liphook</a>, England) - A small (approx 5 horse power) working rotative bean engine dating from approx 1850, used to power farm machinery, with a water wheel attached to supplement the power.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Levant_Mine_and_Beam_Engine" title="Levant Mine and Beam Engine">Levant Mine and Beam Engine</a> (<a href="/wiki/Trewellard" title="Trewellard">Trewellard</a>, England) – a working beam engine on a <a href="/wiki/National_Trust_for_Places_of_Historic_Interest_or_Natural_Beauty" class="mw-redirect" title="National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty">National Trust</a> property in West Cornwall, England</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Markfield_Beam_Engine" class="mw-redirect" title="Markfield Beam Engine">Markfield Beam Engine</a> (<a href="/wiki/Tottenham" title="Tottenham">Tottenham</a>, England) – a compound, rotative engine.</li> <li>Middleton Top Engine House, <a href="/wiki/Middleton-by-Wirksworth" title="Middleton-by-Wirksworth">Middleton-by-Wirksworth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Derbyshire" title="Derbyshire">Derbyshire</a>. The twin beam engine (built in 1829) is the world’s oldest working reciprocating winding engine still in its original engine house.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Museum_De_Cruquius" title="Museum De Cruquius">Museum De Cruquius</a> (<a href="/wiki/Cruquius,_Netherlands" title="Cruquius, Netherlands">Cruquius</a>, The Netherlands) – the eight-beamed engine at <a href="/wiki/Cruquius_(town)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cruquius (town)">Cruquius</a> is thought to be the largest steam engine ever built</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newcomen_Memorial_Engine" title="Newcomen Memorial Engine">Newcomen Memorial Engine</a> (<a href="/wiki/Dartmouth,_Devon" title="Dartmouth, Devon">Dartmouth</a>, England) - dating from about 1725. Hydraulic mechanism added for demonstration purposes.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nottingham_Industrial_Museum" title="Nottingham Industrial Museum">Nottingham Industrial Museum</a> (<a href="/wiki/Nottingham" title="Nottingham">Nottingham</a>, England) - The Steam Gallery contains an impressive Basford Beam Engine, one of a pair of engines built in 1858 by <a href="/wiki/R%26W_Hawthorn" class="mw-redirect" title="R&W Hawthorn">R&W Hawthorn</a> in <a href="/wiki/Newcastle_upon_Tyne" title="Newcastle upon Tyne">Newcastle upon Tyne</a>. It was installed at Basford Pumping Station to lift water 110 ft (34 m) from the sandstone below to supply fresh water to the City of Nottingham. The engine was replaced in 1965 and was removed to the purpose-built Steam Gallery where it was first fired in 1975.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pinchbeck_Engine" title="Pinchbeck Engine">Pinchbeck Engine</a> (<a href="/wiki/Spalding,_Lincolnshire" title="Spalding, Lincolnshire">Spalding</a>, England) – statically preserved 'A'-frame engine.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poldark_Mine" title="Poldark Mine">Poldark Mine</a> (<a href="/wiki/Trenear" title="Trenear">Trenear</a>, England) - Harvey's of <a href="/wiki/Hayle" title="Hayle">Hayle</a> Cornish Beam Engine from Bunny Tin Mine and later Greensplat China Clay Pit dating from about 1850. Hydraulic mechanism added for demonstration purposes. Last to have worked commercially in Cornwall to December 1959, moved to Poldark in 1972.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ryhope_Engines_Museum" title="Ryhope Engines Museum">Ryhope Engines Museum</a> (<a href="/wiki/Ryhope" title="Ryhope">Ryhope</a>, England) – twin rotative beam engines; built 1868.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smethwick_Engine" title="Smethwick Engine">Smethwick Engine</a> (<a href="/wiki/Smethwick" title="Smethwick">Smethwick</a>, England) – oldest working steam engine in the world (1779).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stretham_Old_Engine" title="Stretham Old Engine">Stretham Old Engine</a> (<a href="/wiki/Stretham" title="Stretham">Stretham</a>, England) – Statically preserved engine and scoop wheel.</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Strumpshaw_Steam_Museum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Strumpshaw Steam Museum (page does not exist)">Strumpshaw Steam Museum</a> (<a href="/wiki/Strumpshaw" title="Strumpshaw">Strumpshaw</a>, England) - Features a now Compressed Air powered former beam engine from Addington.</li> <li>Tees Cottage Pumping Station (<a href="/wiki/Darlington" title="Darlington">Darlington</a>, England) - a working <a href="/wiki/Rotative_beam_engine" class="mw-redirect" title="Rotative beam engine">rotative</a>, two-cylinder <a href="/wiki/Woolf_compound_engine" class="mw-redirect" title="Woolf compound engine">Woolf compound engine</a>, designed by Glenfield and Kennedy of Kilmarnock and built by Teasdale Bros, under T&C <a href="/wiki/Charles_Hawksley" title="Charles Hawksley">Hawksley</a>, Civil Engineers, London.</li> <li>The Boulton and Watt rotative beam engine (sun and planet type) at the <a href="/wiki/National_Museum_of_Scotland" title="National Museum of Scotland">National Museum of Scotland</a> (1786).<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Occasional working by pneumatics</li> <li>The Caprington Colliery Newcomen engine at the <a href="/wiki/National_Museum_of_Scotland" title="National Museum of Scotland">National Museum of Scotland</a>. Occasional working on pneumatics.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Henry_Ford" title="The Henry Ford">The Henry Ford</a> Museum (Dearborn, Michigan, US) - <i><a href="/wiki/Fairbottom_Bobs" title="Fairbottom Bobs">Fairbottom Bobs</a></i>, a Newcomen engine of the 1760s.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Museum_of_Water_%26_Steam" title="London Museum of Water & Steam">London Museum of Water & Steam</a> (<a href="/wiki/Brentford" title="Brentford">Brentford</a>, England) – five 'Cornish' engines (in original location) of which four are operational, together with two operational rotative beam engines (in museum), including the largest working 'Cornish' engine in the world with a 90-inch (2,286 mm) Cylinder.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Museum_of_Transport_%26_Technology" class="mw-redirect" title="Museum of Transport & Technology">Western Springs Water Works</a> (<a href="/wiki/Auckland" title="Auckland">Auckland</a>, New Zealand) – 1877 double Woolf compound engine. In original location, restored in working order with Transport and Technology Museum built around it. The restoration of the Pumphouse and original Engineers cottage was awarded with the 2009 Award of Merit from UNESCO's Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards for Culture Heritage Conservation programme.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Beam_engine&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 23em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Boulton_%26_Watt" class="mw-redirect" title="Boulton & Watt">Boulton & Watt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cataract_(beam_engine)" title="Cataract (beam engine)">Cataract (beam engine)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cornish_engine" title="Cornish engine">Cornish engine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gimson_and_Company" title="Gimson and Company">Gimson and Company</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Man_engine" title="Man engine">Man engine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marine_steam_engine" title="Marine steam engine">Marine steam engine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mining_in_Cornwall" class="mw-redirect" title="Mining in Cornwall">Mining in Cornwall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prestongrange_Industrial_Heritage_Museum" class="mw-redirect" title="Prestongrange Industrial Heritage Museum">Prestongrange Industrial Heritage Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pumpjack" title="Pumpjack">Pumpjack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Six-column_beam_engine" title="Six-column beam engine">Six-column beam engine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stationary_engine" title="Stationary engine">Stationary engine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Woolf" title="Arthur Woolf">Arthur Woolf</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Beam_engine&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output 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class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Babcock_%26_Wilcox_boiler" class="mw-redirect" title="Babcock & Wilcox boiler">Babcock & Wilcox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Field-tube_boiler" title="Field-tube boiler">Field-tube</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sentinel_boiler" title="Sentinel boiler">Sentinel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stirling_boiler" title="Stirling boiler">Stirling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thimble_tube_boiler" title="Thimble tube boiler">Thimble tube</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Three-drum_boiler" title="Three-drum boiler">Three-drum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yarrow_boiler" title="Yarrow boiler">Yarrow</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:10em">Boiler feed</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Feedwater_heater" title="Feedwater heater">Feedwater 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transfer)">Condenser</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Condensing_steam_locomotive" title="Condensing steam locomotive">Condensing steam locomotive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jet_condenser" class="mw-redirect" title="Jet condenser">Jet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kirchweger_condenser" title="Kirchweger condenser">Kirchweger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Watt_steam_engine#Separate_condenser" title="Watt steam engine">Watt's separate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Newcomen#After_Newcomen" title="Thomas Newcomen">"Pickle-pot"</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surface_condenser" title="Surface condenser">Surface</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Blowback_(steam_engine)" title="Blowback (steam engine)">Blowback</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crosshead" title="Crosshead">Crosshead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cutoff_(steam_engine)" title="Cutoff (steam engine)">Cutoff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Expansion_valve_(steam_engine)" title="Expansion valve (steam engine)">Expansion valve</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hydrolock" title="Hydrolock">Hydrolock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Piston" title="Piston">Piston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reciprocating_engine" title="Reciprocating engine">Reciprocating engine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Return_connecting_rod_engine" title="Return connecting rod engine">Return connecting rod engine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Six-column_beam_engine" title="Six-column beam engine">Six-column beam engine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Return_connecting_rod_engine#Steeple_engines" title="Return connecting rod engine">Steeple engine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Safety_valve" title="Safety valve">Safety valve</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steeple_compound_engine" title="Steeple compound engine">Steeple compound engine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stroke_(engine)" title="Stroke (engine)">Stroke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Working_fluid" title="Working fluid">Working fluid</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_steam_engine" title="History of the steam engine">History</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:10em"><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_steam_engine#Precursors" title="History of the steam engine">Precursors</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Savery" title="Thomas Savery">Savery Engine</a> (1698)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:10em"><a href="/wiki/Newcomen_atmospheric_engine" title="Newcomen atmospheric engine">Newcomen engine</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Newcomen_Memorial_Engine" title="Newcomen Memorial Engine">Newcomen Memorial Engine</a> (1725)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fairbottom_Bobs" title="Fairbottom Bobs">Fairbottom Bobs</a></i> (1760)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elsecar_Engine" class="mw-redirect" title="Elsecar Engine">Elsecar Engine</a> (1795)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:10em"><a href="/wiki/Watt_steam_engine" title="Watt steam engine">Watt engine</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:8em"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Beam</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kinneil_Engine" class="mw-redirect" title="Kinneil Engine">Kinneil Engine</a> (1768)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Bess_(beam_engine)" title="Old Bess (beam engine)"><i>Old Bess</i></a> (1777)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wheal_Busy" title="Wheal Busy">Chacewater Mine engine</a> (1778)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smethwick_Engine" title="Smethwick Engine">Smethwick Engine</a> (1779)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Resolution_(beam_engine)" title="Resolution (beam engine)"><i>Resolution</i></a> (1781)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:8em"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Rotative_beam_engines">Rotative beam</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Soho_Manufactory#Steam_engines" title="Soho Manufactory">Soho Manufactory engine</a> (1782)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Wilkinson_(industrialist)#Boring_machine_for_steam_engines" title="John Wilkinson (industrialist)">Bradley Works engine</a> (1783)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whitbread_Engine" title="Whitbread Engine">Whitbread Engine</a> (1785)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Preserved_beam_engines">National Museum of Scotland engine</a> (1786)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lap_Engine" title="Lap Engine">Lap Engine</a> (1788)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:10em"><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_steam_engine#High-pressure_engines" title="History of the steam engine">High-pressure</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Trevithick#High-pressure_engine" title="Richard Trevithick">Richard Trevithick</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Trevithick#Puffing_Devil" title="Richard Trevithick"><i>Puffing Devil</i></a> (1801)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Trevithick#London_Steam_Carriage" title="Richard Trevithick">London Steam Carriage</a> (1803)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Trevithick#Coalbrookdale_Locomotive" title="Richard Trevithick">"Coalbrookdale Locomotive"</a> (1803)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Trevithick#"Pen-y-Darren"_locomotive" title="Richard Trevithick">"Pen-y-Darren" locomotive</a> (1804)</li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:10em"><a href="/wiki/Compound_steam_engine" title="Compound steam engine">Compound</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Woolf" title="Arthur Woolf">Woolf's compound engine</a> (1803)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:10em"><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Murray" title="Matthew Murray">Murray</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Murray%27s_Hypocycloidal_Engine" title="Murray's Hypocycloidal Engine">Murray's Hypocycloidal Engine</a> (1805)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salamanca_(locomotive)" title="Salamanca (locomotive)"><i>Salamanca</i></a> (1812)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:10em"><a href="/wiki/High-speed_steam_engine" title="High-speed steam engine">High-speed</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Porter-Allen_engine" class="mw-redirect" title="Porter-Allen engine">Porter-Allen</a> (1862)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ljungstr%C3%B6m_turbine" title="Ljungström turbine">Ljungström</a> (1908)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">See also</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Glossary_of_steam_locomotive_components" class="mw-redirect" title="Glossary of steam locomotive components">Glossary of steam locomotive components</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_steam_road_vehicles" title="History of steam road vehicles">History of steam road vehicles</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nicolas-Joseph_Cugnot#The_first_self-propelled_vehicle" title="Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot">Cugnot's <i>fardier à vapeur</i></a> (1769)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Murdoch#Steam_powered_locomotion" title="William Murdoch">Murdoch's model steam carriage</a> (1784)</li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lean%27s_Engine_Reporter" title="Lean's Engine Reporter">Lean's Engine Reporter</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_steam_technology_patents" title="List of steam technology patents">List of steam technology patents</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Advanced_steam_technology" title="Advanced steam technology">Modern steam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stationary_steam_engine" title="Stationary steam engine">Stationary steam engine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_steam_power" title="Timeline of steam power">Timeline of steam power</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Water-returning_engine" title="Water-returning engine">Water-returning engine</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>    </div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1&useformat=desktop" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; position: absolute;"></noscript> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" 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