Early compound beam engine

Made:: 1860 in Westminster

maker:: Horn, Thomas

Compound Condensing Beam Engine 8" & 16" diam

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Compound Condensing Beam Engine 8" & 16" diam
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Compound Condensing Beam Engine 8" & 16" diam. x 17 7/8" & 26" stroke respectively, boiler feed pumps with plunger and Spare engine piston ring and parcel of small spare parts, by Thomas Horn, Engineer, Westminster, London, England, 1860 used at Ifield Sussex

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Category:: Motive Power

Object Number:: 1928-1077

type:: steam engine - engine

credit:: Newcomen Society

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Compound condensing beam engine 8" & 16" diam. x 17 7/8" & 26" stroke respectively

Compound condensing beam engine 8" & 16" diam. x 17 7/8" & 26" stroke respectively, by Thomas Horn, Engineer, Westminster, London, England, 1860

Materials:: steel (metal) , cast iron and brass (copper, zinc alloy)

Object Number:: 1928-1077/1

type:: steam engine - engine

Compound Condensing Beam Engine Boiler feed pumps with plunger

Boiler feed pumps with plunger, by Thomas Horn, Engineer, Westminster, London, England, 1860

Object Number:: 1928-1077/2

type:: beam

Spare engine piston rings

Two piston rings (1 high pressure, 1 low pressure), by Thomas Horn, Engineer, Westminster, London, England, 1860

Object Number:: 1928-1077/3

type:: piston rings

Valve support slide

One valve support slide, by Thomas Horn, Engineer, Westminster, London, England, 1860

Object Number:: 1928-1077/4

type:: valve support slide

Early compound beam engine

Details

Parts

Compound condensing beam engine 8" & 16" diam. x 17 7/8" & 26" stroke respectively

Compound Condensing Beam Engine Boiler feed pumps with plunger

Spare engine piston rings

Valve support slide

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