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A stationary steam engine, preserved at Tower Bridge in London. This is one of two tandem cross-compound hydraulic pumping engines formerly used to raise and lower the bridge. Stationary steam engines are fixed steam engines used for pumping or driving mills and factories, and for
The steam engine range consisted of four stationary engines, and a steam engine unit for model boats. The stationary engines were the Minor, Junior, Standard and Major. [4] The major could also be bought complete with a set of miniature workshop tools. When the steam engine line was brought to an end in 1965, remaining stocks of the model boat ...
A stationary engine is an engine whose framework does not move. They are used to drive immobile equipment, such as pumps, generators, mills or factory machinery, or cable cars. The term usually refers to large immobile reciprocating engines, principally stationary steam engines [1] and, to some extent, stationary internal combustion engines.
Musgrave's non-dead-centre engine was a stationary steam engine of unusual design, intended to solve the problem of stopping on dead centre. It was designed in 1887 to serve as a marine engine . It used a pair of linked cylinders to prevent the engine from stopping in a position where no turning force can be applied.
The success to come with stationary steam engines was in no small part based on the experiences with the short-lived railway locomotive production: the locomotives had boilers rated for 50 pounds per square inch (3.4 bar), compared to the normal stationary engine boiler rating at that time of 5 or 10 psi (0.34 or 0.69 bar). [18]
Table engine built by Lampitt of Banbury c1850 and used at the Hunt Edmunds brewery. 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. The piston rod protrudes from the top of the cylinder and has ...
Stationary steam engines (2 C, 23 P) Pages in category "Stationary engines" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
J&H McLaren was a British engineering company in Hunslet, Leeds, England, that manufactured traction engines, stationary engines and later, diesel engines. The company was founded in 1876 by John and Henry McLaren. They had both been apprenticed to Black, Hawthorn & Co of Gateshead