Items matching machinery

Lord Stanhope’s Printing Press

“Very little improvement in the construction of this instrument took place from the first introduction of the art into Europe till the late Earl Stanhope applied the powers of his mind to the subject, [...]

Keywords: typography, printing, machinery

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-02-06

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Strange Machine

Whatever can it be? I am running a competition on Deviant Art for whoever can correctly identify the machine.

Hint: think of clay.

Keywords: machinery

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-04-10

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Copper-plate, or Rolling-Press.

“The rolling-press, which is employed in nearly every species of copper-plate printing, is divided into two parts, the body and the carriage. The body consists of two wooden checks, placed perpendicu [...]

Keywords: typography, printing, machinery

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-02-06

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Spinning Jenny

“The mule-jenny was invented by Crompton, of Bolton, England. This machine is so named because it is the offspring, so to speak, of two older machines, the jenny and the water-frame. A mule is mounted [...]

Keywords: machinery, diagrams

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-10-23

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Great Western express engine

“General Description of a Locomotive.—This is one of the Great Western express engines, running on eight wheels; the large wheel is the driving wheel, the others are called the leading and triling wh [...]

Keywords: railways, machinery, transport, engines

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-02-06

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Crampton’s Engines

“The above figure is another plan of arranging the locomotive. The examples given on page 238 have eight wheels, the general run is six wheels with the large driving wheel in the middle; but in Crampt [...]

Keywords: railways, machinery, diagrams, transport, engines

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-03-15

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Plate I.—Section of Locomotive Engine [coloured letters]

This is a version of Plate I in which I have coloured the letters blue, to try to make it easier to follow the description, which I have also repeated here: In this sectional elevation F is the furnac [...]

Keywords: railways, machinery, diagrams, transport, engines

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-02-06

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Side Lever Engine

This is a steam engine for driving a ship (a paddle-boat in fact) taken from the Marine Engines chapter: 87. The Side Lever Engines.—The first engine employed to drive the paddle wheel was a side lev [...]

Keywords: machinery, engines, transport

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-09-20

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Locomotive Boiler

“256. Locomotive Boiler.—All locomotive boilers are of the class called multibar: they consist essentially of the barrel filled with tubes, while the two ends are named respectively the furnace, or fi [...]

Keywords: railways, machinery, diagrams, transport, engines, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-09-19

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[Festiniog Railway Locomotive]

“In the example here given, the engine is on two trucks [bogies]. The one end can be turned so that the double sets of wheels are not in the same straight line. In practice it is found that bogie carr [...]

Keywords: railways, machinery, transport, engines

Places shown: Wales

Added: 2006-06-08

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Sharp, Brothers, And Co.’s Engine

“The annexed illustration will give a much better idea of the locomotive engine and boiler than the last one.” (p. 241) There is also a cross-section of this locomotive, which I have scanned but not y [...]

Keywords: railways, machinery, transport, engines

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-02-06

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Plate I.—Section of Locomotive Engine

This is a cross-section through a steam engine (i.e. a railway locomotive, or a railroad engine as they say in North America). The description is a little hard to follow, so I made a version in which [...]

Keywords: railways, machinery, diagrams, transport, engines

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-02-06

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