| Description | Boat-Mounted Pumping and Dredging Engines (4 items).
1279f. Genoese Dredge (KS). Jul., Oct. 1844, Oct. 1847. 4 items.
20 horse power independent crank engine, with parallel motion, [cast iron beam, cast iron connecting rod].
Also dredging machinery.
Longitudinal section of the boat showing engine and shafts and dredging machinery, cross-section and plan of the boat showing engine and shafts and dredging machinery - drawings made by Hunter & English; front view of the engine and longitudinal section of the boiler and plan of the engine and boiler - partially coloured reverse drawing. The reverse drawing bears a letter code.
Also tracing of plan and sections of 20 horse engine and boiler, marked "a tracing like this sent to London 20 Oct. 1847 to be forwarded from thence to Robert Sanderson at Genoa" - these drawings show a land-based engine in an engine house.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 801. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 154.
For Genoa, Italy. The engine was made in 1841, but was not appropriated for the Genoese dredge until Aug. 1844. The engine was mounted in a boat, and worked dredging machinery made by Hunter & English. |