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 ...
A SPECIAL exhibition was opened at the Science Museum, South Kensington, on December 20 to commemorate the bicentenary of the birth at Greenock on January 19, 1736, of James Watt, the famous engineer ...