The pumping station at Cruquius, showing the beams of the pumping engine emerging from the supporting wall
A Cornish engine is a type of steam engine developed in Cornwall, England, mainly for pumping water from a mine. It is a form of beam engine that uses steam at a higher pressure than the earlier engines designed by James Watt. The engines were also used for powering man engines to assist the underground miners' journeys to and from their working levels, for winching materials into and out of the mine, and for powering on-site ore stamping machinery.[1]
^Barton, D. B. (1966). The Cornish Beam Engine (New ed.). Truro: D. Bradford Barton.
A Cornishengine is a type of steam engine developed in Cornwall, England, mainly for pumping water from a mine. It is a form of beam engine that uses...
relatively efficient. The Cornishengine had irregular motion and torque through the cycle, limiting it mainly to pumping. Cornishengines were used in mines...
pumping engines on the Cornish system (often known as Cornishengines) continued to be built new throughout the 19th century. Older Watt engines were updated...
existed there. Consequently, the Cornish beam engines became world-famous, as they remain among the most massive beam engines ever constructed. Because of...
The Cornish people or Cornish (Cornish: Kernowyon, Old English: Cornƿīelisċ) are an ethnic group native to, or associated with Cornwall and a recognised...
engines valve timings can be driven by eccentrics or cranks, but in non-rotative beam engines these options are not available. In the Cornishengine valves...
Prosper. This became known as the Cornishengine, and was the most efficient in the world at that time. Other Cornish engineers contributed to its development...
Cornish Pump may refer to: Chapin Mine Steam Pump Engine, a steam engine located in Iron Mountain, Michigan, commonly called The Cornish Pump Cornish...
16 October 1837, Guernsey) was a Cornish engineer, most famous for inventing a high-pressure compound steam engine. In this way he made an outstanding...
The Chapin Mine Steam Pump Engine, also known as The Cornish Pump, is a steam-driven pump located at the corner of Kent Street and Kimberly Avenue in...
result of using the exhaust of a high-pressure engine to power a condensing engine. The Cornishengine was notable for its relatively high efficiency...
electric pumps. This was the last new Cornishengine to be built. It remains in situ in its Grade I listed engine house. The quarry was one of the first...
a Cornish engineer who contributed to the use of high pressure steam engines for transportation and mining applications. In 1935 the CornishEngines Preservation...
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century. In the Cornish examples the motive power was provided by waterwheels, or one of the mine's steam engines. The steam engine or water wheel would...
the engines. Number 1 engine, built by Boulton and Watt in 1812 and rebuilt as a Cornishengine in the 1840s, is a single-acting, condensing engine with...
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England. He was the designer of the Harvey's Engine, a Cornish beam engine initially used as a pumping engine as of 1892 in the Carn Brea mine and from 1924...
1781, this technique was first employed on a Cornish beam engine in 1804. Around 1850, compound engines were first introduced into Lancashire textile...
B. (1966). The Cornish Beam Engine (New ed.). Truro: D. Bradford Barton Ltd. Burt, Roger; Waite, Peter; Burnley, Ray (1987). Cornish Mines: Metalliferous...
words Cornish penny, in the centre a view of a mine pumping engine and winding gear. The 1791 Cornwall Conder Token, (halfpenny) had "Cornish Copper...
A W engine is a type of piston engine where three or four cylinder banks use the same crankshaft, resembling the letter W when viewed from the front....
England, UK. Its main attraction is that it has the world's only Cornish beam engine still operated by steam on its original site. There is also a visitor...
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