| Title | Pirate and Other Engineers’ Engines, circa 1780, 173, circa 1792, 1793, 1795, 1796, 1799, not dated |
| Description | Designs by William Murdock and Matthew Boulton, Atmospheric and Other Engines, Drawings for Court Cases (19 items).
1353b. Drawings of Pirate and Other Engineers' Engines. Circa 1780-1783, circa 1792, 1793, 1795, 1796, 1799, 1814/1815, not dated. 19 items.
"The Snow Hill Engine":
Sketch side view showing beam, crank, connecting wheels, drum etc. and notes on the machinery powered by the engine, not dated.
Front view of the connecting wheels and shaft showing location of "ratchet wheel… before the alteration," not dated.
[Two views of Matthew Wasbrough's controversial rotative Newcomen engine, built for James Pickard's mill at Snow Hill in Birmingham. The drawings may date from circa 1780-1783, as Wasbrough's original pawl and ratchet mechanism was replaced by a crank towards the end of 1780. Thomas Southern visited the engine circa 1782-1783 and Watt recorded the details that Southern gave him in his "No. 2 Blotting & Calculation Book" [4/1]. The details of the machinery that Southern gave to Watt differ from those noted on the first drawing.]
William Symington's engine at Mr. Walker's, Bakers Row, Coldbath Fields, London - section of the engine, not dated (circa 1792).
Francis Thompson's Patent Engine to work a rotary Motion on an improved Plan - coloured ground plan, 1793 (marked much later in pencil "suppose at Daintry & Co.'s, Macclesfield").
Jeffries' engine at Pontop Pike Colliery - coloured side view of the engine and winding and elevations of the winding barrel, marked in pencil "suppose at work in 1795".
Hornblower & Maberly's engines:
Isaac Manwaring's "Pendulum Steam Engine" - coloured plans and elevations, marked in pencil "Suppose Mainwaring's Engine, patent right of which was purchased by Maberly, copied in 1796".
Sections and plan of Hornblower & Maberly's engine, marked on the back "Mr. Peareth's engine".
"Differents View of Hornblower & Maberly's Engine, as erected upon Mr. Peareth's colliery at Chartershaugh in the County of Durham, drawn by James Bailey, 13 Jan. 1796" - coloured and sections and plan, with a section of the cylinder of Robert Cameron & Humphrey Jeffreys' "Improved Engine" on the same sheet.
Plan and sections of Mr. Peareth's engine at Newbottle Colliery 1796, with explanatory notes by Gavin McMurdo - 3 drawings and memorandum.
Matthew Murray's Patent, 1799 - sheet of 7 shaded drawings, with a transcript of Murray's patent specification.
Printed description of Laing & Anderson's new patent Steam Engine, with sheet of printed coloured drawings showing the engine working a horizontal sugar mill, with a Black man feeding in sugar cane, circa 1814-1815.
Engine made by Maudslay for Messrs. Rohde & Co. - elevations and plans of a "table engine" made by Maudslay Sons & Field, not dated (2 sheets of drawings).
Sketch of Dr. Booth's Direct Engine - press copy drawing, not dated.
James Glazebrook's patent - coloured side view of a sun & planet engine with parallel motion and boiler with large tubes etc. marked "Engine on James Glazebrook's principle for which he obtained a patent", not dated.
See also: Portfolio 5/1354c (general drawings of Hornblower & Maberley's engine). |