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Portable engine

Index Portable engine

A portable engine is an engine, either a steam engine or an internal combustion engine, that sits in one place while operating (providing power to machinery), but (unlike a stationary engine) is portable and thus can be easily moved from one work site to another. [1]

86 relations: Agricultural machinery, Association football, Aveling and Porter, Bagasse, Birmingham, Boiler feedwater pump, Boston, Lincolnshire, Bramall Lane, Car, Centrifugal pump, Chaff, Clayton & Shuttleworth, Coal, Crankshaft, Crown colony, Cylinder (engine), Developing country, Draft horse, Dynamo, Eccentric (mechanism), Electrification, Engine, Engine-generator, England, Feedwater heater, Fire-tube boiler, Firebox (steam engine), Floodlight, Flywheel, Gear, Governor (device), Great Dorset Steam Fair, Great Leap Forward, Gristmill, History of the steam engine, Hit-and-miss engine, Internal combustion engine, Ipswich, John Fowler & Co., John Fowler (agricultural engineer), Launch-type boiler, Lincoln, England, Line shaft, List of traction engine manufacturers, Machine press, Machine tool, Manual labour, Marshall, Sons & Co., Mining, Myanmar, ..., New South Wales, Oil well, Ox, Pig iron, Power hammer, Probus, Cornwall, Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies, Richard Trevithick, Royal Agricultural Society of England, Rural electrification, Sawmill, Science Museum, London, Semi-portable engine, Sheffield, Sir Christopher Hawkins, 1st Baronet, Slide valve, Small engine, Smokebox, Spark arrestor, Stationary engine, Stationary steam engine, Steam engine, Steam locomotive, Steam tractor, Table saw, Threshing machine, Traction engine, Tractor, Truck, Valve gear, Vienna, Watermill, Windmill, Wood fuel, Working animal, Yorkshire. Expand index (36 more) »

Agricultural machinery

Agricultural machinery is machinery used in farming or other agriculture.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Aveling and Porter

Aveling and Porter was a British agricultural engine and steam-roller manufacturer.

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Bagasse

Bagasse is the fibrous matter that remains after sugarcane or sorghum stalks are crushed to extract their juice.

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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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Boiler feedwater pump

A boiler feedwater pump is a specific type of pump used to pump feedwater into a steam boiler.

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Boston, Lincolnshire

Boston is a town and small port in Lincolnshire, on the east coast of England, approximately 100 miles (160 km) north of London.

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Bramall Lane

Bramall Lane is a football stadium in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.

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Car

A car (or automobile) is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transportation.

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Centrifugal pump

Centrifugal pumps are a sub-class of dynamic axisymmetric work-absorbing turbomachinery.

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Chaff

Chaff is the dry, scaly protective casings of the seeds of cereal grain, or similar fine, dry, scaly plant material such as scaly parts of flowers, or finely chopped straw.

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Clayton & Shuttleworth

Clayton & Shuttleworth was an engineering company located at Stamp End Works, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England.

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.

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Crankshaft

A crankshaft—related to crank—is a mechanical part able to perform a conversion between reciprocating motion and rotational motion.

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Crown colony

Crown colony, dependent territory and royal colony are terms used to describe the administration of United Kingdom overseas territories that are controlled by the British Government.

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Cylinder (engine)

A cylinder is the central working part of a reciprocating engine or pump, the space in which a piston travels.

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Developing country

A developing country (or a low and middle income country (LMIC), less developed country, less economically developed country (LEDC), underdeveloped country) is a country with a less developed industrial base and a low Human Development Index (HDI) relative to other countries.

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Draft horse

A draft horse (US), draught horse (UK and Commonwealth) or dray horse (from the Old English dragan meaning "to draw or haul"; compare Dutch dragen and German tragen meaning "to carry" and Danish drage meaning "to draw" or "to fare"), less often called a carthorse, work horse or heavy horse, is a large horse bred to be a working animal doing hard tasks such as plowing and other farm labor.

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Dynamo

A dynamo is an electrical generator that creates direct current using a commutator.

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Eccentric (mechanism)

In mechanical engineering, an eccentric is a circular disk (eccentric sheave) solidly fixed to a rotating axle with its centre offset from that of the axle (hence the word "eccentric", out of the centre).

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Electrification

Electrification is the process of powering by electricity and, in many contexts, the introduction of such power by changing over from an earlier power source.

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Engine

An engine or motor is a machine designed to convert one form of energy into mechanical energy.

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Engine-generator

An engine-generator or portable generator is the combination of an electrical generator and an engine (prime mover) mounted together to form a single piece of equipment.

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England

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

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Feedwater heater

A feedwater heater is a power plant component used to pre-heat water delivered to a steam generating boiler.

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Fire-tube boiler

A fire-tube boiler is a type of boiler in which hot gases pass from a fire through one or (many) more tubes running through a sealed container of water.

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Firebox (steam engine)

In a steam engine, the firebox is the area where the fuel is burned, producing heat to boil the water in the boiler.

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Floodlight

Floodlights are broad-beamed, high-intensity artificial lights.

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Flywheel

A flywheel is a mechanical device specifically designed to efficiently store rotational energy.

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Gear

A gear or cogwheel is a rotating machine part having cut like teeth, or cogs, which mesh with another toothed part to transmit torque.

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Governor (device)

A governor, or speed limiter or controller, is a device used to measure and regulate the speed of a machine, such as an engine.

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Great Dorset Steam Fair

The Great Dorset Steam Fair (abbreviated GDSF, and since 2010 also known as The National Heritage Show) is an annual show featuring steam-powered vehicles and machinery.

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Great Leap Forward

The Great Leap Forward of the People's Republic of China (PRC) was an economic and social campaign by the Communist Party of China (CPC) from 1958 to 1962.

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Gristmill

A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill or flour mill) grinds cereal grain into flour and middlings.

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History of the steam engine

The first recorded rudimentary steam engine was the aeolipile described by Heron of Alexandria in 1st-century Roman Egypt.

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Hit-and-miss engine

A hit-and-miss engine is a type of four-stroke internal combustion engine that is controlled by a governor to operate a set speed.

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Internal combustion engine

An internal combustion engine (ICE) is a heat engine where the combustion of a fuel occurs with an oxidizer (usually air) in a combustion chamber that is an integral part of the working fluid flow circuit.

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Ipswich

Ipswich is the county town of Suffolk, England, located on the estuary of the River Orwell, about north east of London.

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John Fowler & Co.

John Fowler & Co Engineers of Leathley Road, Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England produced traction engines and ploughing implements and equipment, as well as railway equipment.

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John Fowler (agricultural engineer)

John Fowler (11 July 1826 – 4 December 1864) was an English agricultural engineer who was a pioneer in the use of steam engines for ploughing and digging drainage channels.

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Launch-type boiler

A launch-type, gunboat or horizontal multitubular boiler is a form of small steam boiler.

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Lincoln, England

Lincoln is a cathedral city and the county town of Lincolnshire in the East Midlands of England.

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Line shaft

A line shaft is a power driven rotating shaft for power transmission that was used extensively from the Industrial Revolution until the early 20th century.

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List of traction engine manufacturers

This is a list of the more notable companies that manufactured traction engines of any kind, including steam tractors, portable engines, and steam rollers.

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Machine press

A forming press, commonly shortened to press, is a machine tool that changes the shape of a workpiece by the application of pressure.

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Machine tool

A machine tool is a machine for shaping or machining metal or other rigid materials, usually by cutting, boring, grinding, shearing, or other forms of deformation.

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Manual labour

Manual labour (in British English, manual labor in American English) or manual work is physical work done by people, most especially in contrast to that done by machines, and to that done by working animals.

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Marshall, Sons & Co.

Marshall, Sons & Co. was a British agricultural machinery manufacturer founded in 1848.

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Mining

Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually from an orebody, lode, vein, seam, reef or placer deposit.

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Myanmar

Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma, is a sovereign state in Southeast Asia.

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New South Wales

New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.

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Oil well

An oil well is a boring in the Earth that is designed to bring petroleum oil hydrocarbons to the surface.

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Ox

An ox (plural oxen), also known as a bullock in Australia and India, is a bovine trained as a draft animal or riding animal.

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Pig iron

Pig iron is an intermediate product of the iron industry.

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Power hammer

Power hammers are mechanical forging hammers that use a non-muscular power source to raise the hammer preparatory to striking, and accelerate it onto the work being hammered.

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Probus, Cornwall

Probus (Cornish: Lannbrobus) is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom.

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Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies

Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies Limited was a major British agricultural machinery maker also producing a wide range of general engineering products in Ipswich, Suffolk including traction engines, trolleybuses, ploughs, lawn mowers, combine harvesters and other tilling equipment.

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Richard Trevithick

Richard Trevithick (13 April 1771 – 22 April 1833) was a British inventor and mining engineer from Cornwall, England.

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Royal Agricultural Society of England

The Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE) promotes the scientific development of English agriculture.

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Rural electrification

Rural electrification is the process of bringing electrical power to rural and remote areas.

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Sawmill

A sawmill or lumber mill is a facility where logs are cut into lumber.

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Science Museum, London

The Science Museum is a major museum on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London.

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Semi-portable engine

A semi-portable engine is a form of stationary steam engine.

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Sheffield

Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England.

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Sir Christopher Hawkins, 1st Baronet

Sir Christopher Hawkins, 1st Baronet (29 May 1758 – 6 April 1829) was a Cornish landowner, mine-owner, Tory Member of Parliament, and patron of steam power.

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Slide valve

The slide valve is a rectilinear valve used to control the admission of steam into, and emission of exhaust from, the cylinder of a steam engine.

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Small engine

A small engine is the general term for a wide range of small-displacement, low-powered internal combustion engines used to power lawn mowers, generators, concrete mixers and many other machines that require independent power sources.

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Smokebox

A smokebox is one of the major basic parts of a steam locomotive exhaust system.

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Spark arrestor

A spark arrester (sometimes spark arrestor) is any device which prevents the emission of flammable debris from combustion sources, such as internal combustion engines, fireplaces, and wood burning stoves.

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Stationary engine

A stationary engine is an engine whose framework does not move.

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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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Steam locomotive

A steam locomotive is a type of railway locomotive that produces its pulling power through a steam engine.

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Steam tractor

A steam tractor is a vehicle powered by a steam engine which is used for pulling.

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Table saw

A table saw or sawbench is a woodworking tool, consisting of a circular saw blade, mounted on an arbor, that is driven by an electric motor (either directly, by belt, or by gears).

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Threshing machine

A threshing machine or thresher is a piece of farm equipment that threshes grain, that is, it removes the seeds from the stalks and husks.

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Traction engine

A traction engine is a self-propelled steam engine used to move heavy loads on roads, plough ground or to provide power at a chosen location.

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Tractor

A tractor is an engineering vehicle specifically designed to deliver at a high tractive effort (or torque) at slow speeds, for the purposes of hauling a trailer or machinery used in agriculture or construction.

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Truck

A truck or lorry is a motor vehicle designed to transport cargo.

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Valve gear

The valve gear of a steam engine is the mechanism that operates the inlet and exhaust valves to admit steam into the cylinder and allow exhaust steam to escape, respectively, at the correct points in the cycle.

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Vienna

Vienna (Wien) is the federal capital and largest city of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria.

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Watermill

A watermill or water mill is a mill that uses hydropower.

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Windmill

A windmill is a mill that converts the energy of wind into rotational energy by means of vanes called sails or blades.

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Wood fuel

Wood fuel (or fuelwood) is a fuel, such as firewood, charcoal, chips, sheets, pellets, and sawdust.

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Working animal

A working animal is an animal, usually domesticated, that is kept by humans and trained to perform tasks.

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Yorkshire

Yorkshire (abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a historic county of Northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom.

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References

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

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