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A-frame
An A-frame is a basic structure designed to bear a load in a lightweight economical manner.
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Abbey Mills Pumping Station
The original Abbey Mills Pumping Station, in Stratford, East London, is a sewage pumping station, designed by engineer Joseph Bazalgette, Edmund Cooper, and architect Charles Driver.
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Abbey Pumping Station
The Abbey Pumping Station is a museum of science and technology in Leicester, England, on Corporation Road, next to the National Space Centre.
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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 (locomotive)
Atlantic was the name of a very early American steam locomotive built by inventor and foundry owner Phineas Davis for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) in 1832.
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B. Hick and Sons
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Bamford
Bamford is a village in the Derbyshire Peak District, England, close to the River Derwent.
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Barring engine
A barring engine is a small engine, usually a steam engine, that forms part of the installation of a large stationary steam engine.
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Basset Mines
Basset Mines was a mining company formed in Cornwall, England, by the amalgamation of six copper and tin mining setts.
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Beam (structure)
A beam is a structural element that primarily resists loads applied laterally to the beam's axis.
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Bestwood Pumping Station
Bestwood Pumping Station was a water pumping station operating in Nottinghamshire from 1874 until 1964.
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Blacko
Blacko is a village and civil parish in the Pendle district of Lancashire, England.
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Blagdon Lake
Blagdon Lake lies in a valley at the northern edge of the Mendip Hills, close to the village of Blagdon and approximately south of Bristol, England.
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Blists Hill Victorian Town
Blists Hill is an open-air museum, one of ten museums operated by the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, built on a former industrial complex located in the Madeley area of Telford, Shropshire, England.
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Blowing engine
A blowing engine is a large stationary steam engine or internal combustion engine directly coupled to air pumping cylinders.
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Bolton Steam Museum
Bolton Steam Museum is a museum in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, which houses a variety of preserved steam engines.
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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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Bredgar and Wormshill Light Railway
The Bredgar & Wormshill Light Railway (BWLR) is located near the villages of Wormshill and Bredgar in Kent, just south of Sittingbourne.
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Brentford
Brentford is a town in west London, England, historic county town of Middlesex and part of the London Borough of Hounslow, at the confluence of the River Brent and the Thames, west-by-southwest of Charing Cross.
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British Engineerium
The British Engineerium (formerly Brighton and Hove Engineerium) is an engineering and steam power museum in Hove, East Sussex.
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Brunswick Mill, Ancoats
Brunswick Mill, Ancoats is a former cotton spinning mill in Ancoats, Manchester, England.
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Buckley & Taylor
Buckley & Taylor was a British engineering company that manufactured stationary steam engines.
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Burra, South Australia
Burra is a pastoral centre and historic tourist town in the mid-north of South Australia.
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Buxhall Windmill
Buxhall Mill is a tower mill at Buxhall, Suffolk, England which has been converted to residential accommodation.
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Caledon, County Tyrone
Caledon) is a small village and townland (of 232 acres) in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is in the Clogher Valley on the banks of the River Blackwater, 7 miles from Armagh. It lies in the southeast of Tyrone and near the borders of County Armagh and County Monaghan. It is situated in the historic barony of Dungannon Lower and the civil parish of Aghaloo. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 387 people. It is a designated conservation area. It was historically known as Kinnaird (Irish: Cionn Aird, meaning "head/top of the height or hill".
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Calvert's Engine
Calvert's Engine or the Newbridge Colliery Engine is a beam engine of 1845, now preserved on the campus of the University of Glamorgan, South Wales.
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Caphouse Colliery
Caphouse Colliery, originally known as Overton Colliery, was a coal mine in Overton, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England.
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Cash's
Cash's, or J. & J. Cash Ltd., is a company in Coventry, England, founded in 1846, that manufactures woven name tapes and other woven products and is known for formerly making ribbons.
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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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Chatham Dockyard
Chatham Dockyard was a Royal Navy Dockyard located on the River Medway in Kent.
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Chigley
Chigley (1969) is the third and final stop-motion children's television series in Gordon Murray's ''Trumptonshire'' trilogy.
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Chorlton New Mills
Chorlton New Mills is a former large cotton spinning complex in Cambridge Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, England which has since been converted to apartments.
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Christian Dingler
Christian Dingler (15 February 1802 - 18 December 1858) was the founder of the Dingler manufacturing business at Zweibrücken (subsequently subsumed into Terex Cranes Germany) and the Creator of the Dingler Press.
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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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Cleadon
Cleadon is a suburban village in South Tyneside, North East England in the county of Tyne and Wear, and the historic County Durham.
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Cold Hesledon
Cold Hesledon is a village in County Durham, in England.
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Coldharbour Mill Working Wool Museum
Coldharbour Mill, near the village of Uffculme in Devon, England, is one of the oldest woollen textile mills in the world, having been in continuous production since 1797.
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Coleham Pumping Station
Coleham Pumping Station is a historical pumping station at Coleham in Shrewsbury, England.
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Combe Mill
Combe Mill is a historic sawmill situated adjacent to the River Evenlode close to Combe railway station, between the villages of Combe and Long Hanborough in Oxfordshire, England.
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Compound locomotive
A compound locomotive is a steam locomotive which is powered by a compound engine, a type of steam engine where steam is expanded in two or more stages.
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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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Copper Mine, Virgin Gorda
The Copper Mine on Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands, is a national park containing the ruins of an abandoned 19th-century copper mine.
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Corliss steam engine
A Corliss steam engine (or Corliss engine) is a steam engine, fitted with rotary valves and with variable valve timing patented in 1849, invented by and named after the American engineer George Henry Corliss of Providence, Rhode Island.
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Cornish engine
A Cornish engine is a type of steam engine developed in Cornwall, England, mainly for pumping water from a mine.
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Cotton mill
A cotton mill is a factory housing powered spinning or weaving machinery for the production of yarn or cloth from cotton, an important product during the Industrial Revolution when the early mills were important in the development of the factory system.
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Coultershaw Wharf and Beam Pump
Coultershaw Bridge is a rural community situated south of the town Petworth in West Sussex, England where the A285 road from Petworth to Chichester crosses the River Rother.
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Crank (mechanism)
A crank is an arm attached at a right angle to a rotating shaft by which reciprocating motion is imparted to or received from the shaft.
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Crankpin
A crankpin or crank journal is a journal in an engine or mechanical device.
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Creque Marine Railway
The Creque Marine Railway, formerly the "St Thomas Marine Repair Facility", is an inclined-plane ship railway on Hassel Island, in the bay of Charlotte Amalie off the coast of St. Thomas Island, in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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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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Cromford Canal
The Cromford Canal ran from Cromford to the Erewash Canal in Derbyshire, England with a branch to Pinxton.
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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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Cylinder (locomotive)
Cylinders were an important structural part of the steam engines which powered locomotives.
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Dean Heritage Centre
The Dean Heritage Centre is located in the valley of Soudley, Gloucestershire, England in the Forest of Dean and exists to record and preserve the social and industrial history of the area and its people.
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Deep Navigation Colliery
Deep Navigation Colliery was a coal mine in South Wales, that operated from 1872 until 1991.
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Deeping Fen
Deeping Fen is a low-lying area in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England, which covers approximately.
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Dogdyke Pumping Station
The Dogdyke Engine is a drainage engine near Tattershall, Lincolnshire, in England.
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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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Eastney Beam Engine House
Eastney Beam Engine House is a Grade II -listed Victorian engine house in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England.
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Ellenroad Mill
Ellenroad Mill was a cotton spinning mill in Newhey, Milnrow, Rochdale in England.
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Elms colliery
Elms Colliery (also known as Middle Engine Pit) is a disused coal mine in Nailsea within the English County of Somerset.
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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.
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Fairbottom Bobs
Fairbottom Bobs is a Newcomen-type beam engine that was used in the 18th century as a pumping engine to drain a colliery near Ashton-under-Lyne.
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Fenton, Murray and Jackson
Fenton, Murray and Jackson was an engineering company at the Round Foundry off Water Lane in Holbeck, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
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Foolow
Foolow (Old English possibly for Bird Hill or Colourful Hill) is a village in the Derbyshire Peak District.
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Forncett
Forncett is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.
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Foss Dyke
The Foss Dyke, or Fossdyke, connects the River Trent at Torksey to Lincoln, the county town of Lincolnshire, and may be the oldest canal in England that is still in use.
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Gab valve gear
Gab valve gear was an early form of valve gear used on steam engines.
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Giant grasshopper
Giant grasshopper can refer to.
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Gimson and Company
Gimson and Company were founded in 1840 by Josiah and Benjamin Gimson on Welford Road in Leicester.
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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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Grade II listed buildings in Chester (east)
Chester is a city in Cheshire, England.
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Grade II* listed buildings in Brighton and Hove
There are 70 Grade II* listed buildings in the city of Brighton and Hove, England.
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Grafton, Wiltshire
Grafton is a civil parish in Wiltshire, England, in the Vale of Pewsey about southeast of Marlborough.
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Grasshopper
Grasshoppers are insects of the suborder Caelifera within the order Orthoptera, which includes crickets and their allies in the other suborder Ensifera.
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Grasshopper beam engine
Grasshopper beam engines are beam engines that are pivoted at one end, rather than in the centre.
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Grazebrook beam engine
The Grazebrook Engine is an 1817 beam engine that was used for blowing air over the hot coals of a blast furnace to increase the heat.
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Great Tew
Great Tew is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold Hills in Oxfordshire, England, about north-east of Chipping Norton and south-west of Banbury.
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Gunnies
A gunnies, gunnis, or gunniss is the space left in a mine after the extraction by stoping of a vertical or near vertical ore-bearing lode.
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Haarlemmermeer
Haarlemmermeer is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland.
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Haigh, Greater Manchester
Haigh is a village and civil parish of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England.
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Hat Works
The Hat Works is a museum in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, which opened in 2000.
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Havelock Mills
Havelock Mills in central Manchester were built between 1820 and 1840.
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Hay Inclined Plane
The Hay Inclined Plane is a canal inclined plane in the Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire, with a height of 207 feet (63 m).
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Haydock Collieries
Haydock Collieries was a colliery company situated in and around Haydock on the Lancashire Coalfield which is now in Merseyside, England.
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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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History of rail transport in Great Britain to 1830
The history of rail transport in Great Britain to 1830 covers the period up to the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the world's first intercity passenger railway operated solely by steam locomotives.
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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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Hollycombe Steam Collection
The Hollycombe Steam Collection is a collection of steam-powered vehicles, rides and attractions based near Liphook in Hampshire.
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Homeward Bound Battery and Dam
Homeward Bound Battery and Dam is a heritage-listed stamping mill and reservoir at Croydon, Shire of Croydon, Queensland, Australia.
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House-built engine
A house-built engine is a stationary steam engine that is built into an engine house, such that it uses the masonry of the engine house as an integral part of the support of the engine.
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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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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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John Ridley (inventor)
John Ridley (26 May 1806 – 25 November 1887) was an English miller, inventor, landowner, investor, farming machinery manufacturer, farmer and preacher who lived in Australia between 1839 and 1853.
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Lap Engine
The Lap Engine is a beam engine designed by James Watt, built by Boulton and Watt in 1788.
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List of archaeological sites in County Tyrone
List of archaeological sites in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
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List of British innovations and discoveries
The following is a list and timeline of innovations as well as inventions and discoveries that involved British people or the United Kingdom including predecessor states in the history of the formation of the United Kingdom.
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List of English inventions and discoveries
English inventions and discoveries are objects, processes or techniques invented, innovated or discovered, partially or entirely, in England by a person from England (that is, someone born in England - including to non-English parents - or born abroad with at least one English parent and who had the majority of their education or career in England).
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List of industrial archaeology topics
This is a list of topics typically studied by students of industrial archaeology.
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List of mills in Clitheroe
Clitheroe in Lancashire, England is known for limestone quarrying, but it also developed a cotton industry.
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List of museums in Cornwall
This list of museums in Cornwall, United Kingdom contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
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List of museums in Derbyshire
This list of museums in Derbyshire, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
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List of museums in Hampshire
This list of museums in Hampshire, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organisations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
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List of museums in Scotland
This list of museums in Scotland contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
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List of museums in Somerset
The English ceremonial county of Somerset contains a wide range of museums, defined here as institutions (including nonprofit organisations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
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List of museums in Staffordshire
This list of museums in Staffordshire, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
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List of museums in Tyne and Wear
This list of museums in Tyne and Wear, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
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List of museums in West Sussex
This list of museums in West Sussex, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
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List of Rijksmonuments
This is a list of the more notable Rijksmonuments (national heritage sites) in the Netherlands.
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List of Scheduled Monuments in Rhondda Cynon Taf
Rhondda Cynon Taf is a County borough in South Wales.
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List of Scheduled Monuments in Wrexham
The county borough of Wrexham is in north-east Wales, straddling the ancient border earthwork Offa's Dyke.
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Listed buildings in Kettleshulme
Kettleshulme is a civil parish in Cheshire East, England.
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Listed buildings in Poynton with Worth
Poynton with Worth is a civil parish in Cheshire East, England.
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Locally listed buildings in Crawley
As of November 2010, there were 59 locally listed buildings in Crawley, a town and borough in the county of West Sussex in southeast England.
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Losh, Wilson and Bell
Losh, Wilson and Bell, later Bells, Goodman, then Bells, Lightfoot and finally Bell Brothers, was a leading Northeast England manufacturing company, founded in 1809 by the partners William Losh, Thomas Wilson, and Thomas Bell.
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Low Coniscliffe
Low Coniscliffe is a village in the civil parish of Low Coniscliffe and Merrybent, in County Durham, England.
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Low Moor, Lancashire
Low Moor is a hamlet which is part of the town of Clitheroe, located in Lancashire, England.
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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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Markfield Beam Engine and Museum
Markfield Road Pumping Station, now known as Markfield Beam Engine and Museum or sometimes just as Markfield Beam Engine is a Grade II listed building containing a beam engine, originally built in 1886 to pump sewage from Tottenham towards the Beckton Works.
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McConnel & Kennedy Mills
McConnel & Kennedy Mills are a group of cotton mills on Redhill Street in Ancoats, Manchester, England.
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Minera Lead Mines
The Minera Lead Mines were a mining operation and are now a country park and tourist centre in the village of Minera near Wrexham, in Wrexham County Borough, Wales.
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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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Mining on the Brendon Hills
The Brendon Hills are a range of hills in western Somerset, England.
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Murray's Hypocycloidal Engine
Murray's Hypocycloidal Engine, now in Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum, England, was made around 1805 and is the world's third-oldest working steam engine and the oldest working engine with a hypocycloidal gear.
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Murrays' Mills
Murrays' Mills is a complex of former cotton mills on land between Jersey Street and the Rochdale Canal in the district of Ancoats, Manchester, England.
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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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Museum of the Gorge, Ironbridge
The Museum of the Gorge, originally the Severn Warehouse, is one of the ten museums of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust.
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Museum of Transport and Technology
The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT) is a science and technology museum located in Western Springs, Auckland, New Zealand.
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N. Corah & Sons
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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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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 Memorial Engine
The Newcomen Memorial Engine (sometimes called the Coventry Canal Engine) is a preserved beam engine in Dartmouth, Devon.
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Nicholas Procter Burgh
Nicholas Procter (N.P.) Burgh (c. 1835 – 1900 at Graces Guide. Retrieved 06.2015.) was a British consulting marine engineer, known for his work on marine engines, marine engineering, screw propulsion, boilers and boiler-making and the indicator diagram.
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Northumbrian Water
Northumbrian Water Limited is a water company in the United Kingdom, providing mains water and sewerage services in the English counties of Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, Durham and parts of North Yorkshire, and also supplying water as Essex and Suffolk Water.
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Nottingham Industrial Museum
Nottingham Industrial Museum is situated in part of the 17th-century stables block of Wollaton Hall, located in a suburb of the city of Nottingham.
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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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Open-loop controller
In an open-loop controller, also called a non-feedback controller, the control action from the controller is independent of the "process output", which is the process variable that is being controlled.
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Outline of mining
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to mining: Mining – extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually (but not always) from an ore body, vein or (coal) seam.
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Painshill
Painshill (also referred to as "Pains Hill" in some 19th-century texts), near Cobham, Surrey, England, is one of the finest remaining examples of an 18th-century English landscape park.
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Parkfield Colliery
Parkfield Colliery, near Pucklechurch, South Gloucestershire, was sunk in 1851 under the ownership of Handel Cossham.
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Pendleton Colliery
Pendleton Colliery was a coal mine operating on the Manchester Coalfield after the late 1820s on Whit Lane in Pendleton, then in the historic county of Lancashire, England.
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Petrie of Rochdale
Alexander Petrie and Co was a company that manufactured stationary steam engines.
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Phoenix Row
Phoenix Row incorporating Belts Gill and Softley Dene Farm (formerly Glebe Farm) is a hamlet of about 30 houses in County Durham, in England.
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Pinchbeck Engine
The Pinchbeck Engine is a drainage engine, a rotative beam engine built in 1833 to drain Pinchbeck Marsh, to the north of Spalding, Lincolnshire, in England.
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Piston rod
In a piston engine, a piston rod joins a piston to the crosshead and thus to the connecting rod that drives the crankshaft or (for steam locomotives) the driving wheels.
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Pode Hole
Pode Hole is a small village to the west of the centre of Spalding in Lincolnshire, England, at the confluence of several drainage channels.
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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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Poppet valve
A poppet valve (also called mushroom valve) is a valve typically used to control the timing and quantity of gas or vapour flow into an engine.
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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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Prestongrange Museum
Prestongrange Museum is an industrial heritage museum at Prestongrange between Musselburgh and Prestonpans on the B1348 on the East Lothian coast, Scotland.
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Prickwillow
Prickwillow is a village in East Cambridgeshire with an estimated population of 440.
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Pumpjack
A pumpjack is the overground drive for a reciprocating piston pump in an oil well.
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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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Radcliffe, Greater Manchester
Radcliffe is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England.
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Ram Hill Colliery
Ram Hill Colliery, was a privately owned colliery in the Coalpit Heath area north-east of Bristol, England.
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Reading–Taunton line
The Reading–Taunton line is a major branch of the Great Western Main Line from which it diverges at Reading railway station.
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Resolution (beam engine)
Resolution was an early beam engine, installed between 1781–1782 at Coalbrookdale as a water-returning engine to power the blast furnaces and ironworks there.
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Return connecting rod engine
A return connecting rod, return piston rod or (in marine parlance) double piston rod engine or back-acting engine is a particular layout for a steam engine.
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Richard L. Hills
Richard Leslie Hills MBE (born 1 September 1936) is an English historian and clergyman who has written extensively on the history of technology, particularly steam power.
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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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River Ouse, Sussex
The Ouse is a river in the English counties of West and East Sussex.
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River Parrett
The River Parrett flows through the counties of Dorset and Somerset in South West England, from its source in the Thorney Mills springs in the hills around Chedington in Dorset.
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Ryhope Engines Museum
The Ryhope Engines Museum is a visitor attraction in the Ryhope suburb of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear.
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Scoop wheel
Rim driven Scoop wheel of the Stretham Old Engine, Cambridgeshire A scoop wheel may be a pump or an excavator.
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Serpon Sugar Mill
Serpon Sugar Mill is an historical site in Belize, consisting of the remnants of a steam-powered sugar mill whose construction in 1865 marked the beginning of the country's industrial era.
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Shore Road Pumping Station
The Shore Road Pumping Station is a pumping station situated in Birkenhead, on the Wirral Peninsula, 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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Six-column beam engine
Six-column beam engines are a means of constructing a beam engine, where the beam's central pivot is supported on a cast-iron frame or 'bedstead', supported on six iron columns.
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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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SS America (1869)
SS America (1869–1872) was a ship for Pacific Mail Steamship Company operating on the China Line along with the,,,, and spare steamer.
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SS City of Erie
The SS City of Erie was a sidewheeler steamboat on Lake Erie.
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SS Mona's Isle (1830)
SS (RMS) Mona's Isle (I) was the first vessel ordered for service with the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company when it began its operation in 1830.
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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 power during the Industrial Revolution
Improvements to the steam engine were some of the most important technologies of the Industrial Revolution, although steam did not replace water power in importance in Britain until after the Industrial Revolution.
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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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Strumpshaw Hall Steam Museum
The Strumpshaw Hall Steam Museum in Strumpshaw, Norfolk is home to a collection of Traction engines, Steam rollers, a Showman's engine and a Steam wagon which are run on special occasions and on the last Sunday of each month from April to October.
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Sun and planet gear
The sun and planet gear is a method of converting reciprocating motion to rotary motion and was used in the first rotative beam engines.
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Table engine
A table engine is a variety of stationary steam engine where the cylinder is placed on top of a table-shaped base, the legs of which stand on the baseplate which locates the crankshaft bearings.
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Tees Cottage Pumping Station
Tees Cottage Pumping Station is a Victorian pumping station complex at Broken Scar on the A67 near Low Coniscliffe just west of Darlington.
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Temple Works
Temple Works is a former flax mill in Holbeck, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
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Textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution
Textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution in Britain was centred in south Lancashire and the towns on both sides of the Pennines.
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The Pumping Station, Whitacre Waterworks
The Pumping Station at Whitacre Waterworks, Shustoke, Warwickshire, is a Victorian Venetian Gothic pumping house built in circa 1860.
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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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Tom Walshaw
Tom D. Walshaw (1912–1998) was an engineer, author and contributor to the British magazine Model Engineer.
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Topshop (workshop)
A topshop or top-shop is a design of building specific to Coventry and Bedworth in the English Midlands, of the 18th and 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Union Mill, Cranbrook
Union Mill is a Grade I listed smock mill in Cranbrook, Kent, England, which has been restored to working order.
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University of Glamorgan
The University of Glamorgan (Prifysgol Morgannwg) was a university based in South Wales prior to the merger with University of Wales, Newport, that formed the University of South Wales in April 2013.
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USLHT Holly (1881)
The USLHT Holly was one of two Holly-class side wheel bay and sound tenders built in 1881 for service in the Chesapeake Bay region, the other being the.
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Wanlockhead
Wanlockhead is a village in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, nestling in the Lowther Hills and one mile south of Leadhills at the head of the Mennock Pass, which forms part of the Southern Uplands.
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Water-returning engine
A water-returning engine was an early form of stationary steam engine, developed at the start of the Industrial Revolution in the middle of the 18th century.
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Watt's linkage
Watt's linkage (also known as the parallel linkage) is a type of mechanical linkage invented by James Watt (19 January 1736 – 25 August 1819) in which the central moving point of the linkage is constrained to travel on an approximation to a straight line.
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Western Springs
Western Springs is a residential suburb and park in the city of Auckland in the north of New Zealand.
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Westonzoyland Pumping Station Museum
The Westonzoyland Pumping Station Museum of Steam Power and Land Drainage is a small industrial heritage museum dedicated to steam powered machinery at Westonzoyland in the English county of Somerset.
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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 McNaught (Glasgow)
William McNaught (1813–1881) was a Scottish engineer, from Glasgow, who patented a compound steam engine in 1845.
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William Roberts & Co of Nelson
William Roberts and Company (later William Roberts and Sons) of Phoenix Foundry in Nelson, Lancashire, England, produced many of the steam engines that powered cotton weaving and spinning mills of Pendle and neighbouring districts.
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Winding engine
A winding engine is a stationary engine used to control a cable, for example to power a mining hoist at a pit head.
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Witham First District IDB
Witham First District IDB is an English internal drainage board which was set up under the terms of the Land Drainage Act 1930.
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Witham Third District IDB
Witham Third District IDB is an English internal drainage board set up under the terms of the Land Drainage Act 1930.
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Witton Park Colliery
Witton Park Colliery was a coal mine in Witton Park, Witton-le-Wear near Bishop Auckland, County Durham, Northern England.
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Wooler (motorcycles)
Wooler was a British manufacturer of motorcycles and automobiles, founded by engineer John Wooler in 1911 based in Alperton, Middlesex.
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Worsbrough Mill
Worsbrough Mill, also known as Worsbrough Corn Mill and Worsbrough Mill Farm is a complex of buildings including a Seventeenth Century water powered mill and a Nineteenth Century steam-powered mill in Worsbrough, Barnsley, England.
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Young's
Young's (Young & Co.'s Brewery Plc) is a British pub chain operating nearly 220 pubs.
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2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony
The opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games took place on the evening of Friday 27 July in the Olympic Stadium, London.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beam_engine
