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Boulton and Watt

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* Boulton & Watt was an early British engineering and manufacturing firm in the business of designing and making marine and stationary steam engines. [1]

38 relations: Beam engine, Birmingham, Crofton Pumping Station, Engineering, England, General partnership, Handsworth, West Midlands, Industrial Revolution, Isaac Perrins, James Watt, John Southern (engineer), John Wilkinson (industrialist), Library of Birmingham, London Museum of Water & Steam, Marine steam engine, Matthew Boulton, Netherton, West Midlands, Newcomen atmospheric engine, Papplewick Pumping Station, Patent, Peter Ewart, Powerhouse Museum, Samuel Clegg, Smethwick, Smethwick Engine, Soho Foundry, Soho House, Soho Manufactory, Stationary steam engine, Steam engine, Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum, United Kingdom, W & T Avery Ltd., Watt steam engine, West Midlands (region), Whitbread Engine, William Brunton, William Murdoch.

Beam engine

A beam engine is a type of steam engine where a pivoted overhead beam is used to apply the force from a vertical piston to a vertical connecting rod.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Crofton Pumping Station

Crofton Pumping Station near the village of Great Bedwyn in Wiltshire, England supplies the summit pound of the Kennet and Avon Canal with water.

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Engineering

Engineering is the creative application of science, mathematical methods, and empirical evidence to the innovation, design, construction, operation and maintenance of structures, machines, materials, devices, systems, processes, and organizations.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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General partnership

A general partnership, the basic form of partnership under common law, is in most countries an association of persons or an unincorporated company with the following major features.

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Handsworth, West Midlands

Handsworth is now an inner city, urban area of northwest Birmingham in the West Midlands.

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Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.

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Isaac Perrins

Isaac Perrins was an English bareknuckle prizefighter and 18th-century engineer.

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James Watt

James Watt (30 January 1736 (19 January 1736 OS) – 25 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1781, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world.

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John Southern (engineer)

John Southern (c.1758–1815) was an English engineer, son of Thomas Southern of Derbyshire.

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John Wilkinson (industrialist)

John "Iron-Mad" Wilkinson (1728 – 14 July 1808) was an English industrialist who pioneered the manufacture of cast iron and the use of cast-iron goods during the Industrial Revolution.

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Library of Birmingham

The Library of Birmingham is a public library in Birmingham, England.

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London Museum of Water & Steam

London Museum of Water & Steam is an independent museum founded in 1975 as the Kew Bridge Steam Museum.

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Marine steam engine

A marine steam engine is a steam engine that is used to power a ship or boat.

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Matthew Boulton

Matthew Boulton (3 September 1728 – 17 August 1809) was an English manufacturer and business partner of Scottish engineer James Watt.

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Netherton, West Midlands

Netherton is an area of the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, south of Dudley town centre in the West Midlands of England, but historically in Worcestershire.

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Newcomen atmospheric engine

The atmospheric engine was invented by Thomas Newcomen in 1712, and is often referred to simply as a Newcomen engine.

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Papplewick Pumping Station

Papplewick Pumping Station, situated in open agricultural land approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) by road from the Nottinghamshire village of Papplewick, was built by Nottingham Corporation Water Department between 1881 and 1884 to pump water from the Bunter sandstone to provide drinking water to the City of Nottingham, in England.

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Patent

A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state or intergovernmental organization to an inventor or assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for detailed public disclosure of an invention.

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Peter Ewart

Peter Ewart (14 May 1767 – 15 September 1842) was a British engineer who was influential in developing the technologies of turbines and theories of thermodynamics.

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Powerhouse Museum

The Powerhouse Museum is the major branch of the Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences in Sydney, the other being the historic Sydney Observatory.

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Samuel Clegg

Samuel Clegg (2 March 1781 – 8 January 1861) was a British engineer, known mostly for his development of the gas works process.

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Smethwick

Smethwick is a town in Sandwell, West Midlands, historically in Staffordshire.

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Smethwick Engine

The Smethwick Engine is a Watt steam engine made by Boulton and Watt, which was installed near Birmingham, England, and was brought into service in May 1779.

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Soho Foundry

Soho Foundry is a factory created in 1795 by Matthew Boulton and James Watt and their sons Matthew Robinson Boulton and James Watt Jr. at Smethwick, West Midlands, England, for the manufacture of steam engines.

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Soho House

Soho House is a museum run by Birmingham Museums Trust, celebrating Matthew Boulton's life, his partnership with James Watt, his membership of the Lunar Society and his contribution to the Midlands Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution.

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Soho Manufactory

The Soho Manufactory was an early factory which pioneered mass production on the assembly line principle, in Soho, Birmingham, England, at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

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Stationary steam engine

Stationary steam engines are fixed steam engines used for pumping or driving mills and factories, and for power generation.

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Steam engine

A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.

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Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum

Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum (formerly known as simply Thinktank) is a science museum in Birmingham, England.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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W & T Avery Ltd.

W & T Avery Ltd. is a British manufacturer of weighing machines.

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Watt steam engine

The Watt steam engine (alternatively known as the Boulton and Watt steam engine) was the first type of steam engine to make use of a separate condenser.

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West Midlands (region)

The West Midlands is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes.

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Whitbread Engine

The Whitbread Engine preserved in the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia, built in 1785, is one of the first rotative steam engines ever built, and is the oldest surviving.

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William Brunton

William Brunton Senior (26 May 1777 – 5 October 1851) was a Scottish engineer and inventor.

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William Murdoch

William Murdoch (sometimes spelled Murdock) (21 August 1754 – 15 November 1839) was a Scottish engineer and inventor.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulton_and_Watt

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