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Engineering Heritage Awards

Index Engineering Heritage Awards

The Engineering Heritage Awards, formally known as the Engineering Heritage Hallmark Scheme, were established by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) in 1984 to identify and promote artefacts, locations, collections and landmarks of significant engineering importance. [1]

118 relations: Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet, Alstom, Anderton Boat Lift, Arthur Woolf, Atlantic 21-class lifeboat, Atlantic College, Avro Vulcan XH558, Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, Beam engine, Bellerophon, Bessemer process, Black Country Living Museum, Bluebell Railway, Bombe, Brabham BT19, Bristol Proteus, British Rail APT-E, Bryan Donkin, Channel Tunnel, Charles Algernon Parsons, Claverton Pumping Station, Claymills Pumping Station, Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron, Computational fluid dynamics, Concorde, Cragside, Crossness Pumping Station, Cruachan Power Station, Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, De Havilland Mosquito, Didcot Railway Centre, Eling Tide Mill, Ellenroad Ring Mill Engine, English Electric Lightning, Etruria Industrial Museum, Eugen Langen, Eurostar, Falkirk Wheel, Ffestiniog Railway, Float glass, Garratt, Harry Ricardo, Hawker Siddeley Harrier, Henry Maudslay, HMS Belfast, HMS Holland 1, Humphrey pump, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Internal Fire – Museum of Power, Jaguar E-Type, ..., JCB Dieselmax, Joseph Bramah, Jubilee Line Extension, Kempton Park Steam Engines, King Edward Mine, Kirkaldy Testing Museum, L. Gardner and Sons, Little Willie, LMR 57 Lion, LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard, LNER Peppercorn Class A1 60163 Tornado, LNWR Webb Coal Tank, Locomotion No. 1, Locomotive No. 1, London Museum of Water & Steam, London Post Office Railway, Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway, National Mining Museum Scotland, National Museum of Scotland, Nikolaus Otto, North of England Lead Mining Museum, Old Bess (beam engine), Papplewick Pumping Station, Penydarren Ironworks, Perkins Engines, Power Jets W.2, PS Kingswear Castle, PS Waverley, Quarry Bank Mill, Queen Street Mill, Rigid-hulled inflatable boat, River Don Engine, Robert Stephenson and Company, Rolls-Royce RB211, Royal Air Force Museum London, Royal Arsenal, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Safety bicycle, Short SC.1, Smethwick Engine, SR.N5, SS Great Britain, Stirling engine, Stretham Old Engine, Sumburgh Head Lighthouse, Taiaroa Head, Talyllyn Railway, Tees Transporter Bridge, Thames Barrier, Thames Water Ring Main, Thomas Newcomen, Titan Clydebank, Tower Bridge, Trencherfield Mill, Turbinia, Vickers Wellington, Volk's Electric Railway, Watt steam engine, Westland Lynx, Whitbread Engine, Willans & Robinson, Willans engine, William Dent Priestman, Williamson amplifier, Worthington-Simpson, Wortley Top Forge, Yavari (ship). Expand index (68 more) »

Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet

Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet is an industrial museum in the south of the City of Sheffield, England.

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Alstom

Alstom is a French multinational company operating worldwide in rail transport markets, active in the fields of passenger transportation, signalling and locomotives, with products including the AGV, TGV, Eurostar, and Pendolino high-speed trains, in addition to suburban, regional and metro trains, and Citadis trams.

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Anderton Boat Lift

The Anderton Boat Lift is a two caisson lift lock near the village of Anderton, Cheshire, in North West England.

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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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Atlantic 21-class lifeboat

The Atlantic 21 is part of the B-class of lifeboats that served the shores of the United Kingdom and Ireland as part of the RNLI inshore fleet.

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Atlantic College

Atlantic College or the United World College of the Atlantic or UWC Atlantic College is an international IB Diploma Programme independent (private) residential Sixth Form College in the Vale of Glamorgan in Wales.

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Avro Vulcan XH558

Avro Vulcan XH558 (military serial XH558, civil aircraft registration G-VLCN) The Spirit Of Great Britain was the last remaining airworthy example of the 134 Avro Vulcan jet powered delta winged strategic nuclear bomber aircraft operated by the Royal Air Force during the Cold War.

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Battle of Britain Memorial Flight

The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF) is a Royal Air Force flight which provides an aerial display group usually comprising an Avro Lancaster, a Supermarine Spitfire and a Hawker Hurricane.

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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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Bellerophon

Bellerophon (Βελλεροφῶν) or Bellerophontes (Βελλεροφόντης) is a hero of Greek mythology.

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Bessemer process

The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace.

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Black Country Living Museum

The Black Country Living Museum (formerly The Black Country Museum) is an open-air museum of rebuilt historic buildings in Dudley in the West Midlands of England.

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Bluebell Railway

The Bluebell Railway is a heritage line almost entirely in West Sussex in England, except for Sheffield Park which is in East Sussex.

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Bombe

The bombe is an electro-mechanical device used by British cryptologists to help decipher German Enigma-machine-encrypted secret messages during World War II.

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Brabham BT19

The Brabham BT19 is a Formula One racing car designed by Ron Tauranac for the British Brabham team.

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Bristol Proteus

The Bristol Proteus was the Bristol Aeroplane Company's first mass-produced gas turbine engine design, a turboprop that delivered just over 4,000 hp (3,000 kW).

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British Rail APT-E

The APT-E, for Advanced Passenger Train Experimental, was the prototype Advanced Passenger Train tilting train unit.

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Bryan Donkin

Bryan Donkin FRS FRAS (22 March 1768 – 27 February 1855) developed the first paper making machine and created the world's first commercial canning factory.

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Channel Tunnel

The Channel Tunnel (Le tunnel sous la Manche; also nicknamed the Chunnel) is a rail tunnel linking Folkestone, Kent, in the United Kingdom, with Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais, near Calais in northern France, beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover.

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Charles Algernon Parsons

Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, (13 June 1854 – 11 February 1931), the son of a member of the Irish peerage,http://www.tcd.ie/Secretary/FellowsScholars/discourses/discourses/1968_Lord%20Rosse%20on%20W.%20Parsons.pdf was an Anglo-Irish engineer, best known for his invention of the compound steam turbine, and as the namesake of C. A. Parsons and Company.

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Claverton Pumping Station

Claverton Pumping Station in the village of Claverton, in the English county of Somerset, pumps water from the River Avon to the Kennet and Avon Canal using power from the flow of the River Avon.

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Claymills Pumping Station

Claymills Pumping Station is a restored Victorian sewage pumping station on the north side of Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England.

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Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron

The Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron is one of ten Ironbridge Gorge Museums administered by the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust.

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Computational fluid dynamics

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a branch of fluid mechanics that uses numerical analysis and data structures to solve and analyze problems that involve fluid flows.

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Concorde

The Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde is a British-French turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner that was operated from 1976 until 2003.

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Cragside

Cragside is a Victorian country house near the town of Rothbury in Northumberland, England.

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Crossness Pumping Station

The Crossness Pumping Station is a former sewage pumping station designed by the Metropolitan Board of Works's Chief Engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette and architect Charles Henry Driver at the eastern end of the Southern Outfall Sewer and the Ridgeway path in the London Borough of Bexley.

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Cruachan Power Station

The Cruachan Power Station (also known as the Cruachan Dam) is a pumped-storage hydroelectric power station in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.

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Darjeeling Himalayan Railway

The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, also known as the DHR or Toy Train, is a narrow-gauge railway based on zig zag and loop-line technology which runs between New Jalpaiguri and Darjeeling in the Indian state of West Bengal.

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De Havilland Mosquito

The de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito is a British twin-engine shoulder-winged multi-role combat aircraft.

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Didcot Railway Centre

Didcot Railway Centre is a former Great Western Railway engine-shed and locomotive stabling point located in Didcot, Oxfordshire, England, which today has been converted into a railway museum and preservation engineering site.

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Eling Tide Mill

Eling Tide Mill, situated on an artificial causeway in Eling in Hampshire, England, is one of only two remaining operating tide mills in the United Kingdom.

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Ellenroad Ring Mill Engine

The Ellenroad Ring Mill Engine is a preserved stationary steam engine in Milnrow, Greater Manchester.

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English Electric Lightning

The English Electric Lightning is a supersonic fighter aircraft of the Cold War era.

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Etruria Industrial Museum

The Etruria Industrial Museum is located in Etruria, Staffordshire, in England.

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Eugen Langen

Carl Eugen Langen (9 October 1833 – 2 October 1895) was a German entrepreneur, engineer and inventor, involved in the development of the petrol engine and the Wuppertal Suspension Railway.

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Eurostar

Eurostar is a high-speed railway service connecting London with Amsterdam, Avignon, Brussels, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Paris and Rotterdam.

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Falkirk Wheel

The Falkirk Wheel is a rotating boat lift in Scotland, connecting the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal.

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Ffestiniog Railway

The Ffestiniog Railway (Rheilffordd Ffestiniog) is a narrow-gauge heritage railway, located in Gwynedd, Wales.

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Float glass

Float glass is a sheet of glass made by floating molten glass on a bed of molten metal, typically tin, although lead and various low melting point alloys were used in the past.

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Garratt

A Garratt (often referred to as a Beyer Garratt) is a type of steam locomotive that is articulated into three parts.

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Harry Ricardo

Sir Harry Ralph Ricardo (26 January 1885 – 18 May 1974) was one of the foremost engine designers and researchers in the early years of the development of the internal combustion engine.

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Hawker Siddeley Harrier

The Hawker Siddeley Harrier, developed in the 1960s, was the first of the Harrier Jump Jet series of aircraft.

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Henry Maudslay

Henry Maudslay (pronunciation and spelling) (22 August 1771 – 14 February 1831) was a British machine tool innovator, tool and die maker, and inventor.

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HMS Belfast

Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Belfast after the capital city of Northern Ireland.

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HMS Holland 1

Holland 1 (or HM submarine Torpedo Boat No 1) was the first submarine commissioned by the Royal Navy, the first in a six-boat batch of the.

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Humphrey pump

The Humphrey pump is a large internal combustion gas-fuelled liquid-piston pump.

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Institution of Mechanical Engineers

The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) is an independent professional association, and learned society headquartered in central London, that represents mechanical engineers and the engineering profession.

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Internal Fire – Museum of Power

The Internal Fire – Museum of Power is a museum of internal combustion engines in West Wales.

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Jaguar E-Type

The Jaguar E-Type, or the Jaguar XK-E for the North American market, is a British sports car that was manufactured by Jaguar Cars Ltd between 1961 and 1975.

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JCB Dieselmax

The JCB Dieselmax is a diesel-engined 'streamliner' car designed for the purpose of breaking the land speed record for a diesel-engined vehicle.

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Joseph Bramah

Joseph Bramah (13 April 1748 – 9 December 1814), born Stainborough Lane Farm, Stainborough, Barnsley Yorkshire, was an English inventor and locksmith.

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Jubilee Line Extension

The Jubilee Line Extension is the extension of the London Underground Jubilee line from to through south and east London.

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Kempton Park Steam Engines

The Kempton Park Steam Engines (also known as the Kempton Great Engines) are two large triple-expansion steam engines, dating from 1926–1929, at the Kempton Park waterworks, London.

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King Edward Mine

The King Edward Mine at Camborne, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom is a mine wholly owned by the Camborne School of Mines of the University of Exeter.

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Kirkaldy Testing Museum

The Kirkaldy Testing Museum is a museum in Southwark, south London, England, in David Kirkaldy's former testing works.

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L. Gardner and Sons

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Little Willie

Little Willie was a prototype in the development of the British Mark I tank.

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LMR 57 Lion

The Liverpool and Manchester Railway (LMR) 57 Lion is an early 0-4-2 steam locomotive, which had a top speed of and could pull up to 200 tons (203 tonnes).

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LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard

London and North Eastern Railway locomotive numbered 4468 Mallard is a Class A4 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotive built at Doncaster, England in 1938.

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LNER Peppercorn Class A1 60163 Tornado

60163 Tornado is a main line coal-fired steam locomotive built in Darlington, County Durham, England.

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LNWR Webb Coal Tank

The London and North Western Railway (LNWR) Webb Coal Tank is a class of 0-6-2T steam locomotive.

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Locomotion No. 1

Locomotion No.

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Locomotive No. 1

Locomotive No.

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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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London Post Office Railway

The Post Office Railway, known as Mail Rail since 1987, is a narrow gauge, driverless underground railway in London that was built by the Post Office with assistance from the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, to move mail between sorting offices.

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Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway

The Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway is a water-powered funicular railway joining the twin towns of Lynton and Lynmouth on the rugged coast of North Devon.

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National Mining Museum Scotland

The National Mining Museum Scotland was created in 1984, to preserve the physical surface remains of Lady Victoria Colliery at Newtongrange, Midlothian, Scotland.

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National Museum of Scotland

The National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, was formed in 2006 with the merger of the new Museum of Scotland, with collections relating to Scottish antiquities, culture and history, and the adjacent Royal Museum (so renamed in 1995), with collections covering science and technology, natural history, and world cultures.

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Nikolaus Otto

Nikolaus August Otto (14 June 1832, Holzhausen an der Haide, Nassau – 26 January 1891, Cologne) was a German engineer who successfully developed the compressed charge internal combustion engine which ran on petroleum gas and led to the modern internal combustion engine.

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North of England Lead Mining Museum

The North of England Lead Mining Museum, also known as Killhope, is an industrial museum near the village of Cowshill, County Durham, England.

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Old Bess (beam engine)

Old Bess is an early beam engine built by the partnership of Boulton and Watt.

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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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Penydarren Ironworks

Penydarren Ironworks was the fourth of the great ironworks established at Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales.

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Perkins Engines

Perkins Engines (officially Perkins Engines Company Limited), a subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc., is primarily a diesel engine manufacturer for several markets including Agricultural, Construction, Material Handling, Power Generation and Industrial.

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Power Jets W.2

The Power Jets W.2 was a British turbojet engine designed by Frank Whittle and Power Jets (Research and Development) Ltd.

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PS Kingswear Castle

PS Kingswear Castle is a steamship.

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PS Waverley

PS Waverley is the last seagoing passenger-carrying paddle steamer in the world.

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Quarry Bank Mill

Quarry Bank Mill (also known as Styal Mill) in Styal, Cheshire, England, is one of the best preserved textile mills of the Industrial Revolution and is now a museum of the cotton industry.

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Queen Street Mill

Queen Street Mill is a in Harle Syke, a suburb to the north-east of Burnley, Lancashire.

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Rigid-hulled inflatable boat

A rigid-hulled inflatable boat (RHIB) or rigid-inflatable boat (RIB) is a lightweight but high-performance and high-capacity boat constructed with a solid, shaped hull and flexible tubes at the gunwale.

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River Don Engine

The River Don Engine is a 1905-built steam engine used for hot rolling steel armour plate.

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Robert Stephenson and Company

Robert Stephenson and Company was a locomotive manufacturing company founded in 1823.

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Rolls-Royce RB211

The Rolls-Royce RB211 is a British family of high-bypass turbofan engines made by Rolls-Royce plc.

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Royal Air Force Museum London

The Royal Air Force Museum London, commonly called the RAF Museum, is located on the former Hendon Aerodrome, with five major buildings and hangars dedicated to the history of aviation and the Royal Air Force.

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Royal Arsenal

The Royal Arsenal, Woolwich carried out armaments manufacture, ammunition proofing, and explosives research for the British armed forces at a site on the south bank of the River Thames in Woolwich in south-east London, England, United Kingdom.

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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (brand name Kew) is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

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Royal National Lifeboat Institution

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is the largest charity that saves lives at sea around the coasts of the UK, the Republic of Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man as well as on some inland waterways.

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Safety bicycle

A safety bicycle (or simply a safety) is a type of bicycle that became very popular beginning in the late 1880s as an alternative to the penny-farthing ("ordinary") and is now the most common type of bicycle.

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Short SC.1

The Short SC.1 was the first British fixed-wing vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) jet aircraft developed by Short Brothers.

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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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SR.N5

The Saunders-Roe SR.N5 (or Warden class) was a medium-sized hovercraft which first flew in 1964.

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SS Great Britain

SS Great Britain is a museum ship and former passenger steamship, which was advanced for her time.

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Stirling engine

A Stirling engine is a heat engine that operates by cyclic compression and expansion of air or other gas (the working fluid) at different temperatures, such that there is a net conversion of heat energy to mechanical work.

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Stretham Old Engine

Stretham Old Engine is a steam-powered engine just south of Stretham in Cambridgeshire, England, that was used to pump water from flood-affected areas of The Fens back into the River Great Ouse.

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Sumburgh Head Lighthouse

Sumburgh Head Lighthouse is a lighthouse on Sumburgh Head at the southern tip of the Mainland of Shetland.

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Taiaroa Head

Taiaroa Head is a headland at the end of the Otago Peninsula in New Zealand, overlooking the mouth of the Otago Harbour.

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Talyllyn Railway

The Talyllyn Railway (Rheilffordd Talyllyn) is a narrow gauge preserved railway in Wales running for from Tywyn on the Mid-Wales coast to Nant Gwernol near the village of Abergynolwyn.

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Tees Transporter Bridge

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Thames Barrier

The Thames Barrier prevents the floodplain of most of Greater London from being flooded by exceptionally high tides and storm surges moving up from the North Sea.

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Thames Water Ring Main

The Thames Water Ring Main (TWRM) (formerly the London Water Ring Main/LWRM) is a major part of London's water supply infrastructure, approximately of mostly concrete pipelines to transfer potable water from water treatment works (WTWs) in the Thames and River Lea catchments for distribution within London.

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Thomas Newcomen

Thomas Newcomen (February 1664 – 5 August 1729) was an English inventor who created the first practical steam engine in 1712, the Newcomen atmospheric engine.

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Titan Clydebank

Titan Clydebank is a cantilever crane at Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland.

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Tower Bridge

Tower Bridge is a combined bascule and suspension bridge in London built between 1886 and 1894.

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Trencherfield Mill

Trencherfield Mill is a cotton spinning mill standing next to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England.

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Turbinia

Turbinia was the first steam turbine-powered steamship.

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Vickers Wellington

The Vickers Wellington was a British twin-engined, long-range medium bomber.

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Volk's Electric Railway

Volk's Electric Railway (VER) is a narrow gauge heritage railway that runs along a length of the seafront of the English seaside resort of Brighton.

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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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Westland Lynx

The Westland Lynx is a British multi-purpose military helicopter designed and built by Westland Helicopters at its factory in Yeovil.

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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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Willans & Robinson

Willans & Robinson Limited manufacturing engineers of Thames Ditton, Surrey.

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Willans engine

The Willans engine or central valve engine was a high-speed stationary steam engine used for electricity generation around the start of the 20th century.

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William Dent Priestman

William Dent Priestman, born in 1847 near Kingston upon Hull was a Quaker and engineering pioneer, inventor of the Priestman Oil Engine, and co-founder with his brother Samuel of the Priestman Brothers engineering company, manufacturers of cranes, winches and excavators.

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Williamson amplifier

A Williamson amplifier refers to a type of vacuum tube (valve) amplifier whose circuit design uses the same principles as a design published by D.T.N. Williamson.

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Worthington-Simpson

Worthington-Simpson was a British pump manufacturer.

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Wortley Top Forge

Wortley Top Forge is an historic former finery forge and ironworks originally dating back to the seventeenth century, although evidence suggests iron working took place in the vicinity as early as the fourteenth century.

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Yavari (ship)

Yavari is a ship commissioned (along with her sister ship ''Yapura'') by the Peruvian government in 1861 for use on Lake Titicaca.

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References

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