| Description | Vacuum and Blowing Engines (11 items).
30 horse power engine, with 28? inch cylinder, 6 foot stroke, parallel motion.
Reverse general view and plan of the engine, boilers, chimney and blowing cylinder, longitudinal section of boiler; reverse plan of the engine house and framing and boilers, general view of the engine house and framing and blowing cylinder and cross-section of the boilers, sections of the engine house, drawings of the cistern; reverse cross-section of boiler; reverse plan of 2 boilers and part of engine house; working gear - original and reverse front and side views; blowing cylinder, pipes and nozzles, valve box - reverse drawings. All the drawings bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 398. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 270.
For Fishwick Gibson & Co. Iron works, Newcastle upon Tyne. Fishwick Gibson & Co. appear to have become the Tyne Iron Co. early in 1801.
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