| Description | Components and Parts of Land Engines. (135 items).
1387. Working Gear. Circa 1777-1839, not dated. 135 items.
1770s:
Side view of Chelsea and Shadwell working gear - coloured drawing, not dated [1777-1778].
Plan of Chelsea and Shadwell working gear - coloured drawing, not dated [1777-1778].
Working gear of Birmingham Engine [Birmingham Canal Navigation] - coloured drawing, Feb. 1778.
Working gear for Edward Salmon's engine - coloured drawing, 1778.
Working gear for Richmond and Salmon - partially coloured copy of the above drawing, not dated [1778].
Not dated [1770s / 1780s]:
Side view of working gear - coloured drawing, not titled or dated.
Side view of working gear - partially coloured drawing, not titled or dated [similar to the above].
Plan of working gear - coloured drawing, not titled or dated.
Plan and side view of working gear - 2 partially coloured drawings, not titled or dated [ originally clipped together].
Front view [?] of working gear - partially coloured drawing, not titled or dated.
Side view and plan of working gear - not titled or dated.
Parts of working gear - not titled or dated.
1780s:
Elevation of working gear for Wheal Virgin 58s and 56 inch cylinders, not dated [1780-1781].
Plan and side view of working gear - original and reverse drawing, not dated [for Matthew Boulton's lap engine, 1788? - the original drawing is marked "Lap W. V." in pencil].
Working gear for John Gilbert - partially coloured drawing, Feb. 1789.
1790s:
Alteration of working gear for Sutton & Jefferies [?] and Lingard & Were's 8 horse engines, not dated [early 1790s?].
Working gear for 9 to 12 horse engines - partially coloured reverse drawing, Apr. 1791.
Working gear for 26 to 30 horse engines - partially coloured reverse drawing, Jun. 1791.
Working gear for engine "T & S" [Thames & Severn Canal Co.] - partially coloured drawing, Aug. 1791.
Working gear for Soho boring engine - partially coloured drawing, 11 Aug. 1791.
Working gear "for Soho same as Barrow Lees and MDT [Mydrecht]" - partially coloured reverse drawing, Dec. 1791.
Working gear for 36 to 40 horse engines - partially coloured original and reverse drawings, Jan. 1792.
Working gear for 13 to 16 horse engines - partially coloured reverse drawing marked "for the new exhaustion valve nozzles", Mar. 1792.
[Used for the following engines: A. G. & H. Salvin, 1793; Benwell Colliery, 1795; Grimshaw Webster Hills & Scarth, 1795; Brooke & Pease, 1795].
Working gear for 17 to 20 horse engines, later altered to 18 and 20 horse engines - partially coloured drawing marked "for the new exhaustion valve nozzles", Mar. 1792.
[Used for the following engines: Naylor Castle & Co., 1793; John & James Walker, 1793; Roberts & Co., 1795; Sheriff Hill Colliery, 1795; Gowland Clark & Co., 1795.
Working gear for 5 to 8 horse engines - partially coloured original and reverse drawings marked "for the new exhaustion valve nozzles", Mar. 1792.
Working gear for 9 to 12 horse engines - partially coloured reverse drawing marked "for the new exhaustion valve nozzles", Mar. 1792.
[Used for Holland & Bridge, 1793.]
Working gear for 26 to 30 horse engines - partially coloured reverse drawing marked "for the new exhaustion valve nozzles", Mar. 1792.
Working gear for 21 to 25 horse engines - partially coloured original and reverse drawings marked "for the new exhaustion valve nozzles", Mar. 1792.
Working gear for 9 to 12 horse engine - partially coloured drawing, Mar. 1793.
Working gear for 5 to 8 horse engines - partially coloured reverse drawing, Mar. 1793.
[Used for the following engines: John Green & Co., 1793; Cockshead Colliery, 1793; Ralph Kershaw, 1793; Crinan Canal, 1793; Yallop Grace & Johnson, 1794; Thomas Marshall, 1795.]
Working gear for 9 to 12 horse engines - reverse drawing, Mar. 1793.
[Used for the following engines: Cox King Curtis & Payne, 1793; Holland & Bridge, 1793; Thomas Owen & Co., 1795; Hawkes & Co., 1795.]
Working gear for 41 to 50 horse engines - partially coloured drawing, Feb. 1794.
Working gear for 17 to 20 horse engines, Sep. 1796.
Working gear for 3 and 4 horse engines, Mar. 1797.
Working gear for 3, 4 and 6 horse engines - reverse drawing, Mar. 1797.
[Used for the following engines: Mathews Holt & Co., 1798; George Wright, 1799; Josh. & Thomas Foster, 1800.]
Working gear for 6 and 8 horse engines, Aug. 1797.
[Used for Watson Myers & Co., 1799.]
Working gear for 14 and 16 horse engines - reverse drawing, Aug. 1797.
Working gear for 10 and 12 horse engines - reverse drawing, Aug. 1797.
[Used for Wood & Harrop, 1799 and Anthony Amatt & Co., 1799.]
Working gear for 22 to 26 horse engines - reverse drawing, Nov. 1797.
[Used for Thomas Hope, 1799.]
Working gear for 45 horse engines - partially coloured drawing, Feb. 1798.
Working gear for 28 to 32 horse engines - partially coloured original and partially coloured reverse drawings, May 1798.
[The reverse drawing was used for James & John Haig, 1799.]
Working gear for Herland Mine - partially coloured drawing, 23 May 1798.
Working gear for 50 horse engines with 6 foot strokes - reverse drawing, Jun. 1798.
Working gear for 60 inch single-acting engines with 8 foot stroke - partially coloured drawing, Jun. 1798.
Working gear for 18 and 20 horse engines - partially coloured original and partially coloured reverse drawings, Aug. & Jun. 1798.
[The reverse drawing was used for George Wilkie & Co., 1799 and "ER", Jun. 1802.]
Working gear for 44 inch engines with 8 foot strokes - partially coloured drawing, Nov. 1798.
Working gear for 28 to 32 horse engines - reverse drawing, Sep. 1799.
[Used for John Simpson & Co., 1800 and John Pattison, 1800.]
Front view of working gear and nozzles for "small engines" - reverse drawing, Mar. 1799.
Working gear for 31½ inch cylinder for John & James Lees - partially coloured orignal and reverse drawing, May 1799.
Working gear for 60 inch cylinder with 8 foot stroke - partially coloured original and parttially coloured reverse drawings, Nov. 1799.
[Used for an engine for Sir John Hope, ordered by John Grieve.]
Working gear for 4 and 6 horse engines - reverse drawing, Dec. 1799.
[Used for Samuel Rendle, 1800 and United Mines, 1801, and later marked "Condemned".]
Working gear for 10 and 12 horse engines - reverse drawing, Dec. 1799.
1800s:
Working gear for ? - coloured drawing, not titled or dated [1800s?].
Working gear for 8 horse engines - reverse drawing, Sep. 1800.
[Used for Sir John Hope.]
Working gear for 18 and 20 horse engines - reverse drawing, Apr. 1801.
[Used for the following engines: Taylor Weston & Co., 1801; Marriotts & Robinson, 1801; John Lees, 1801; Sheriff Hill Colliery, 1801; Easterby Hall & Co., 1802; Henry Mitton, 1802; T. R. & H. Butterworth, 1802; Brown Chalmers & Co., 1802.]
Working gear for 40 horse engine for Andrew & George Murray - reverse drawing, Jun. 1801.
Working gear for 8 horse engines - reverse drawing, Jul. 1801.
[Used for William Hufton, 1802.]
Working gear for 6 horse engines, Jul. 1801.
[Used for Easterby Hall & Co., 1801.]
Working gear for 45 horse engines - reverse drawing, Aug. 1801.
Working gear for 28 to 32 horse engines - reverse drawing, Aug. 1801.
[Used for the following engines: The Regulator Mill Co., 1801; Daintry Ryle & Co., 1801; Stephen Shallcross, 1801; James Dunlop & Co., 1802.]
Working gear for 10, 12 and 14 horse engines - reverse drawing, Aug. 1801.
[Used for the following engines: William Sandeman, 1801; Charles, Samuel & George Enderby, 1801; Ranson & Ellerby, 1802; Hollins Oldknow Pearce & Co., 1802; Walter Peters, 1802; Jackson & Dampier, 1803.]
Working gear for 40 horse engines - reverse drawing, May 1802.
[Used for Daintry Ryle & Co., 1802 and P. & A. McCandlish, 1802.]
Working gear for 28 to 32 horse engines - reverse drawing, May 1802.
[Used for the following engines: John Monteith, 1802; Thomas Houldsworth, 1802; T. & H. Lodge, 1802.]
Working gear for 3 to 6 horse engines - partially coloured drawing, Jun. 1802.
Working gear for 46 and 48 inch single-acting engines, Aug. 1802.
[Used for the following engines: Josiah Spode, 1802; Birmingham Canal Co., Ocker Hill, 1802; Chelsea Water Works, Pimlico Wharf, 1803.]
Working gear for 16 to 20 horse engines - reverse drawing, Aug. 1802.
[Used for James Lees, 1802 and John Taylor & Son, 1802.]
Working gear for 28 to 32 horse engines - reverse drawing, Oct. 1802.
[Used for Daniel Lees, 1802.]
Working gear for 16 to 20 horse engines - reverse drawing, Oct. 1802.
[Used for Campbell Spiers & Co., 1802.]
Working gear for 36 horse engines - reverse drawing, Oct. 1802.
[Used for Wilkes & Jewsbury, 1802.]
Front view of working gear for 30 horse engines - coloured original and reverse drawings, Nov. 1802.
Side view of working gear and eccentric for 30 horse engines - coloured original and reverse drawings, Nov. 1802.
Working gear for 10 to 14 horse engines - reverse drawing, Mar. 1803.
Working gear for 45 horse engines - reverse drawing, May 1803.
[Used for Watson Ainsworth & Co., 1804.]
Working gear for 10 to 14 horse engines - reverse drawing, circa Jun. 1803.
[Used for the following engines: Thomas Scott & Co., 1803; Milner & Whitaker, 1803; C. & R. Puller, 1804; David Holt, 1804; C. H. Turner, 1804; William Hussey & Co., 1804; Mann & Barnard, 1806.]
Working gear for 20 horse engines - reverse drawing, Jun. 1803.
[Used for the following engines: William Stirling & Sons, 1803; F. G. & J. Southam, 1803; William Halliday & Co., 1803; Benyons Benyons & Bage, 1804; William Purnell & Co., 1804; Dublin Water Works, 1804.]
Sketch of bottom of working gear for 24 to 32 horse engines, Aug. 1803.
Sketch of bottom of working gear for 50 to 56 horse engines, Aug. 1803.
Working gear for 36 horse engines - reverse drawing, Jan. 1804.
[Used for Richard Jackson, 1804.]
Working gear for a 52 inch cylinder with 8 foot stroke - coloured drawing, Sep. 1805.
Working gear for a single-acting 48 inch cylinder - partially coloured original and partially coloured reverse drawings, Sep. 1808.
[Used for East Layton Copper Mine, 1810.]
Working gear for a 40 inch cylinder - partially coloured original and partially coloured direct copy drawings, Feb. 1809.
1810s:
Working gear for single-acting 54 inch cylinder - partially coloured original and partially coloured direct copy drawings, Jan. 1810.
Front view of working gear for 54 inch cylinder - coloured rough drawing, Nov. 1810.
Side view of working gear for 54 to 58 inch cylinders - coloured rough drawing, Nov. 1810.
Working gear for 48, 50 and 52 inch single-acting cylinders - partially coloured original and partially coloured reverse drawings, Nov. 1810.
Parts of the nozzle and working gear for 16 to 20 horse engines - partially coloured original and coloured reverse drawing, Feb. 1811.
Parts of the nozzle and working gear for 24 to 36 horse engines - coloured original and coloured reverse drawing, Feb. 1811.
Working gear for 54 inch single-acting cylinder - partially coloured reverse drawing, Jul. 1811.
Parts of the nozzle and working gear for 53 horse engines - partially coloured original and coloured reverse drawing, Aug. 1811.
Side view of working gear for engine 64X [Sir John Hope's engine of 1808] - sketch, Mar. 1813.
Working gear for 26¼ inch cylinder - partially coloured original and partially coloured reverse drawings, Feb. 1817.
Parts of working gear for 26¼ inch cylinder, not dated [Feb. 1817].
Working gear for 60 and 66 inch single-acting cylinders - partially coloured reverse drawing, Feb. 1818.
Working gear for 42 and 46 inch single-acting cylinders - partially coloured original and partially coloured reverse drawings, Sep. 1818.
Working gear for 54 inch single-acting cylinder - partially coloured direct copy drawing, Nov. 1820 [copied from drawing of Jul. 1811.]
1820s:
Parts of nozzles and working gear for 80 horse engines - coloured reverse drawing, Oct. 1824.
Working gear for Rougemont & Co.'s 53 horse engine - partially coloured drawing, Apr. 1827.
Working gear for Rougemont & Co.'s 53 horse engine - partially coloured reverse drawing, Apr. 1827 [marked "drawn 17 Nov. 1827"].
Parts of working gear and plans of nozzles for Rougemont & Co.'s 53 horse engine - partially coloured drawing, Apr. 1827.
Parts of working gear and plans of nozzles for Rougemont & Co.'s 53 horse engine - partially coloured reverse drawing, Apr. 1827 [marked "This drawing made 1 Mar. 1827, from castings etc".].
Views of the working gear for Thuret & Co. - partially coloured drawing, Nov. 1827.
1830s:
Working gear etc. for 2 horse beam engine - partially coloured drawing, May 1831.
Working gear shaft, levers, balance weight and plummer block for 80 horse engines with 7 foot strokes - partially coloured drawing, Mar. 1833 [finished Jul. 1833].
Working gear for 60 inch cylinders, front and side views - partially coloured drawing, 1834 [marked "Copied by W. Garland from a drawing of Mr. Brown's in 1835"].
Working gear for 60 inch cylinders - partially coloured original and reverse drawings, 1834 [the original is marked "Copied by Robert Mylne from a drawing of Mr. Brown's in 1834"].
Working gear shaft, levers, balance weight and plummer blocks for 60 horse engines with 7 foot strokes - partially coloured reverse drawing, Nov. 1839.
Not dated:
Parts of working gear for 40 horse engine with 6 foot stroke.
Sketch of working gear and nozzles for 54 inch cylinder.
Sketch of parts of working gear [?].
2 drawings of working gear of which the top halves including the dates and titles are missing.
Also Henry Hazleton's portfolio cover marked "Arrangements and Details of Working Gears of Early date" ["Governors etc." was added later].
Graphs:
"Method of describing the curve that produces equal angles of the Y shaft in equal descents of the plug", not dated.
"Slider of the plug cut obliquely - turns the Y shaft = angles in = descents of the plug", not dated.
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