Each beam engine has a 13 tonne beam, 24 tonne flywheel and is the height of a 4-storey building. Burton-upon-Trent produced an enormous amount of sewage for a small town, mainly brewery waste, which ...

Each beam engine has a 13 tonne beam, 24 tonne flywheel and is the height of a 4-storey building. Burton-upon-Trent produced an enormous amount of sewage for a small town, mainly brewery waste, which ...

The Cornish Beam Engine (1834) was originally developed to pump out floodwater from the deep mines that are found in Cornwall. The up and down motion of the piston in the cylinder is transmitted by ...

This object is huge and is the only one in the world still in its original setting. In 1874, the Prestongrange Coal and Iron Company bought this second-hand steam-powered Cornish Beam Engine to tackle ...

Leicester's Abbey Pumping Station Museum will hold a family fun day this weekend to celebrate its 50th anniversary. The event, on Sunday, August 20, will see the pumping station’s beam engines in ...

An historic steam engine rumbled to life Friday in Shreveport for the first time in 28 years. The steam pumping engine is one of the last of it's kind in the country. It's part of the McNeill Street ...

In a world propelled by combustion engines, gas turbines and nuclear reactors, the steam engine may seem like a relic of the past. But without this game-changing invention, the modern world would be a ...

As is fully recognised to-day, it was the invention of the atmospheric steam pumping engine by New-comen that saved many mines from closing down and provided for the first time an engine capable of ...