Van Deren’s Patent Model of a Steam Engine– ca 1860
This model was filed with the application to the U.S. Patent Office for Patent Number 29,642 issued to G.W. Van Deren of Bigflats, New York on August 14, 1860. The patent was for a steam engine design employing an oscillating piston.
STEAM ENGINES - Petroleum History Institute
An early 4 HP portable model by A.N. Wood of Eaton, New York, was the first steam engine to be used in the Franklin, Pennsylvania, field, probably 1860. That field was discovered in late 1859, a few months after Drake's first well on Oil Creek.
Steam Engines | menmachineandcarbine
As a result, 1860s steam engines were significantly different and more efficient machines than the initial models. 22 That evolution can be seen in the increase of each engine's horsepower. Steam engines average horsepower increased from 19.3 in all sectors of manufacturing in 1839 to 30.4 in 1869, an 11.1 horsepower increase.
2-6-0 - Wikipedia
In the United States and Europe, the 2-6-0 wheel arrangement was principally used on tender locomotives. This type of locomotive was widely built in the United States from the early 1860s to the 1920s.
Steam power and British industrialization to 1860
Feb 11, 2022 · Steam power and British industrialization to 1860. Oxford [Eng.] ; New York : Clarendon Press. Reviews cannot be added to this item.
Model of a Horizontal Mill Type Steam Engine, 1860
The valve in this model of a typical mid-19th century engine cuts off the steam to the cylinder at a fixed point in the stroke, resulting in relatively poor efficiency. Speed could only be regulated by throttling the main steam supply.
Cooper Steam Traction Engine Collection - ASME
Sep 17, 1998 · These engines, built by Cooper & Co., of Mount Vernon are among the oldest surviving agricultural steam engines to show the evolution from the portable, skid-mounted engine (ca. 1860) to the horse-drawn engine (1875), through the self-propelled but horse-guided engine (1875) and finally to the self-propelled, self-steered traction engine (1883).
Model of a Horizontal Mill Type Steam Engine, 1860
Model of a Horizontal Mill Type Steam Engine, 1860. National Museum of American History. Object Details Description
Patent Model of a Steam Steering Apparatus, 1860
Mechanical engineer Frederick Sickels (1819-1895), already famous in the 1840s for developing a valve that revolutionized the operation of steam engines, patented a steam steering engine in 1853. By 1860, when he submitted this model to the Patent Office, he had refined the form and details of his device, a process he continued into the 1880s.
Romance of the Steam Engine - Scientific American
Dec 13, 2024 · The mighty giant, steam by which we spin, weave, plow through the ocean, drive the rail car, print our newspapers, and perform a thousand other operations, did not attain to its present...