| Description | Steam Boat Engines (5 items).
1244b. Robert Fulton, New York (EE). Sep. 1810, Feb. 1811, Dec. 1831. 5 items.
Bell crank boat engine, with 28 inch cylinder, 4 foot stroke. Engine never delivered. Converted to a rotative beam engine 1825.
Sketch side view and plan of the engine - shaded drawing; side view and plan of the engine - reverse drawing; sketch of boiler marked "Boiler of "Robert Fulton", for the Mississippi, unfinished when seen at New York." The reverse drawing bears a letter code.
Also the following later items, showing the engine as a rotative beam engine: elevation and plan of the arrangement of the air pump and condenser, side view of the engine, Dec. 1831.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 525. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 310.
For Robert Fulton, New York. Fulton was in New York when he ordered this engine in 1810. He initially ordered a 26 inch cylinder, but this was later increased to a 28 inch. Its arrangement was based closely on the engine made for him in 1804 [see Portfolio 5/1244a]. However it was never delivered to him, and in Jun. 1825 it was converted to a rotative beam engine, with the beam and parallel motion of a 30 horse engine. This engine was not for Fulton, who had died in 1815.
The List of Engines made at Soho describes this engine as a 26 horse.
See also: 4/93 (Engine Order Book No. 7). |