| Description | Pumping and Canal Engines. (27 items).
562. Joseph Poli for the King of Naples, Carditelli. Feb.-Apr. 1788, Apr. 1800. 27 items.
Single-acting engine, with 36 inch cylinder, 8 foot stroke, chain connection.
Numbered set of reverse drawings: 1 - general view of the engine and pump showing inside of engine house, 2 - view of the adit or canal from the river to the pump foot, 3 - ground plan of the engine, boiler and pump, with draft [?] of the original drawing; 4 - inside front view of the engine and boiler, with original drawing, 5 - view of the outer arch of the working beam and of the pump and its rod, 6 - plan of the 1st floor of the engine house, cylinder and boiler tops, 7 - plan of the spring beam floor, chimney and boiler tops, 8 - south elevation of the engine and boiler houses, 9 - north elevation of the engine and boiler houses, 10 - east or west elevation of the engine and boiler houses, [11 & 12? - not numbered] - partially coloured front and side view of the working gear, and another uncoloured reverse drawing, 13 - partially coloured plan of part of the working gear, 14 - partially coloured plan of the steam exhaustion and injection working gear, 15 - plan and side view of the injection working gear, 16 - longitudinal section of the boiler, 17 - front view of the boiler seating and fireplace, 18 - plan of the boiler seating and fireplace, 19 - plan of the aqueduct or canal about the engine house; memorandum describing the general view of the engine and the working gear (2 sheets); memorandum describing the injection gear.
Also martingales, beam end plates, air pump cross bar, plug tree bracket, catch pin etc.; clack door piece, suction piece, bucket and clack, pump rod, plan and sections of the boiler - reverse drawings.
Also coloured original and reverse drawings of nozzles, Apr. 1800; small drawing of nozzles (also 1800?).
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 103. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 288.
For the King of Naples, ordered by Joseph Poli, Preceptor to the Hereditary Prince. Carditelli, near Capua, Naples. The engine was used for pumping water for large fields near one of the King's palaces.
See also: Incoming Correspondence.
Published references: Dickinson & Jenkins p. 186, 187, plate LVIII - front and side view of the working gear. |