File:SteamEngine Boulton&Watt 1784.png

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Summary

Description

English: Sketch showing a steam engine designed by Boulton & Watt, England, 1784.

Labelling: B steam valves (input),

C steam-cylinder,

E exhaust steam valves,

H Connecting rod link to beam

N cold water pump,

O connecting rod,

P piston,

Q regulator/governor,

R rod of the air-pump,

T steam input flap (controlled by governor (Q).

g link connecting piston (P) and beam via parallel motion g-d-c,

m steam inflow lever worked by the air-pump rod (R).

Date

1878

Source

Scanned from a paper reproduction of the original sketch.

From a book published in 1878 in New York: A History of the Growth of the Steam Engine, by Robert H. Thurston, professor of mechanical engineering in the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hobroken, USA.
Thurston, Robert Henry (1878) " James Watt and His Inventions" in A History of the Growth of the Steam Engine, New York, United States: D. Appleton and Company, pp. p. 119 Retrieved on 16 September 2010.

Author

Robert Henry Thurston (1839–1903)

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