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47 relations: Arthur Woolf, Atmospheric pressure, Beam engine, Boulton and Watt, Cataract (beam engine), Compound steam engine, Cornish Mines and Engines, Cornwall, Crofton Pumping Station, Cylinder (engine), Diameter, East London Waterworks Company, East Pool mine, Foot-pound (energy), Hayle, Industrial archaeology, James Watt, John Harvey (ironfounder), Kennet and Avon Canal, Lean's Engine Reporter, Leeds, Levant Mine and Beam Engine, London Museum of Water & Steam, Man engine, Manchester, Mining in Cornwall and Devon, Museum De Cruquius, Netherlands, Newcomen atmospheric engine, Newcomen Society, Poldark Mine, Pool, Cornwall, Porthtowan, Richard Trevithick, Single- and double-acting cylinders, Stamp mill, Stationary steam engine, Steam engine, The Economic History Review, Tin, Trevithick Society, Water wheel, Watt steam engine, Wheal Vor, Whim (mining), Wiltshire, Winch.
Arthur Woolf
Arthur Woolf (1766, Camborne, Cornwall – 16 October 1837, Guernsey) was a Cornish engineer, most famous for inventing a high-pressure compound steam engine.
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Atmospheric pressure
Atmospheric pressure, sometimes also called barometric pressure, is the pressure within the atmosphere of Earth (or that of another planet).
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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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Boulton and Watt
* Boulton & Watt was an early British engineering and manufacturing firm in the business of designing and making marine and stationary steam engines.
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Cataract (beam engine)
A cataract was a speed governing device used for early single-acting beam engines, particularly atmospheric engines and Cornish engines.
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Compound steam engine
A compound steam engine unit is a type of steam engine where steam is expanded in two or more stages.
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Cornish Mines and Engines
Cornish Mines & Engines is a collection of engine houses and an industrial heritage discovery centre located in Pool, near Redruth, Cornwall, United Kingdom, and in the ownership of the National Trust.
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Cornwall
Cornwall (Kernow) is a county in South West England in 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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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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Diameter
In geometry, a diameter of a circle is any straight line segment that passes through the center of the circle and whose endpoints lie on the circle.
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East London Waterworks Company
The East London Waterworks Company was one of eight private water companies in London absorbed by the Metropolitan Water Board in 1904.
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East Pool mine
East Pool mine (later known as East Pool and Agar mine), was a metalliferous mine in the Camborne and Redruth mining area, just east of the village of Pool in Cornwall, England.
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Foot-pound (energy)
The foot pound-force (symbol: ft⋅lbf or ft⋅lb) is a unit of work or energy in the Engineering and Gravitational Systems in United States customary and imperial units of measure.
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Hayle
Hayle (Heyl, "estuary") is a small town, civil parish and cargo port in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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Industrial archaeology
Industrial archaeology (IA) is the systematic study of material evidence associated with the industrial past.
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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 Harvey (ironfounder)
John Harvey was a Cornishman whose career started as a blacksmith and engineer at Carnhell Green near Hayle, in west Cornwall.
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Kennet and Avon Canal
The Kennet and Avon Canal is a waterway in southern England with an overall length of, made up of two lengths of navigable river linked by a canal.
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Lean's Engine Reporter
Lean's Engine Reporter was founded in 1810 to publicize the performances of different Cornish engines used for mine pumping in Cornwall.
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Leeds
Leeds is a city in the metropolitan borough of Leeds, in the county of West Yorkshire, England.
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Levant Mine and Beam Engine
Levant Mine and Beam Engine is a National Trust property at Trewellard, Pendeen, near St Just, Cornwall, England, UK.
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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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Man engine
A man engine is a mechanism of reciprocating ladders and stationary platforms installed in mines to assist the miners' journeys to and from the working levels.
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Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.
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Mining in Cornwall and Devon
Mining in Cornwall and Devon, in the south west of England, began in the early Bronze Age, around 2150 BC, and ended (at least temporarily) with the closure of South Crofty tin mine in Cornwall in 1998.
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Museum De Cruquius
The Museum De Cruquius (or Cruquiusmuseum) occupies the old Cruquius steam pumping station in Cruquius, the Netherlands.
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Netherlands
The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.
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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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Newcomen Society
The Newcomen Society is an International learned society that promotes and celebrates the history of engineering and technology.
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Poldark Mine
Poldark Mine is a museum and tin mine that can be explored near the town of Helston in Cornwall, UK.
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Pool, Cornwall
Pool (Poll) is a village in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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Porthtowan
Porthtowan (Porth Tewyn, meaning cove of sand dunes) is a small village in Cornwall, England which is a popular summer tourist destination.
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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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Single- and double-acting cylinders
Reciprocating engine cylinders are often classified by whether they are single- or double-acting, depending on how the working fluid acts on the piston.
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Stamp mill
A stamp mill (or stamp battery or stamping mill) is a type of mill machine that crushes material by pounding rather than grinding, either for further processing or for extraction of metallic ores.
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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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The Economic History Review
The Economic History Review is a peer-reviewed history journal published quarterly by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Economic History Society.
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Tin
Tin is a chemical element with the symbol Sn (from stannum) and atomic number 50.
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Trevithick Society
The Trevithick Society is a registered charity named for Richard Trevithick, a Cornish engineer who contributed to the use of high pressure steam engines for transportation and mining applications.
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Water wheel
A water wheel is a machine for converting the energy of flowing or falling water into useful forms of power, often in a watermill.
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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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Wheal Vor
Wheal Vor was a metalliferous mine about north west of Helston and north of the village of Breage in the west of Cornwall, England, UK.
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Whim (mining)
A whim, also called a whim gin or a horse capstan, is a device similar to a windlass used in mining for hauling materials to the surface.
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Wiltshire
Wiltshire is a county in South West England with an area of.
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Winch
A winch is a mechanical device that is used to pull in (wind up) or let out (wind out) or otherwise adjust the "tension" of a rope or wire rope (also called "cable" or "wire cable").
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish_engine
