| Description | Water Works Engines (17 items).
1102. Shadwell Water Works, London, No. 2. Jul., Aug., Oct. 1784. 18 items.
Single-acting engine, with 27 inch cylinder, 8 foot stroke, chain connection.
Unmarked and undated section of the engine; plan and inside front view of the engine and boiler; plan and section of the engine house and "cradle house"; nozzles, plan of the condenser, sketch of the beam, condenser cross bar and chain links etc. - reverse drawings; piston - reverse drawing with plan of the condenser on the same sheet, and direct copy marked "suppose Shadwell or Chelsea"; working gear - front and side view Oct. 1784, coloured original and reverse front and side view Nov. 1784, unmarked plan; drawing showing postions of working gear spindles etc.; sheet of drawings of parts of the working gear; parts of the injection gear - reverse drawing; partially shaded section of "New Piston for the North Engine".
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 48. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 176.
For Shadwell Water Works. Pumping engine, Shadwell, London. This was the second engine at Shadwell; the first was erected in 1778 [see Portfolio 5/1104]. In 1798 the company bought a double-acting crank engine with a 21? cylinder [see Portfolio 5/1101].
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