. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ng the engineswhich made them famous and affluent. The beam engine shown, now in theExhibition grounds, is supposed to be oftheir make, and was in use in this cityabout the beginning of last century. Aswill be seen, the engine ;s fitted withWatts then recently invented governor,while the open tank containing the con-denser may be seen in the picture, direct-ly under the mouth of the steam arrangeinent for cooling at that timewould appear to have been extremely sim- direct-action came
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ng the engineswhich made them famous and affluent. The beam engine shown, now in theExhibition grounds, is supposed to be oftheir make, and was in use in this cityabout the beginning of last century. Aswill be seen, the engine ;s fitted withWatts then recently invented governor,while the open tank containing the con-denser may be seen in the picture, direct-ly under the mouth of the steam arrangeinent for cooling at that timewould appear to have been extremely sim- direct-action came into use, and was atone time the motive power of the In-dustry, one of the first steamers built forClyde estuary navigation. The vessel wasbuilt in 1814, but the engine in questionwas not constructed by Caird & Co., ofGreenock, till 1826. That firm subse-quently took a high place among those en-gaged in naval architecture and marineengineering, but it is questionable whetherthey ever turned out a more substantialpiece of workmanship than this old en-gine. Behind these engines, and against the. ■1 IHI^A^^^^P^v^ilHHI If. » ^^^^t. aSifflBr ,„ III II ljH^^^^E^^Q|K^->-] ^^^^^^■•^^f^S^f^^S^^m^S^^KIK^^t^K^m ERECTING SHOP OF ANDREW B.\RCL.\Y, SONS X CO. works of Desaguliers and Belidor, but•until his interest was aroused by the modelit had been passive rather than active in■character. Now, however, he threw hiswhole mind into investigation and experi-ment, from which were evolved the steam-jacketed cylinder and separate , with other improvements of lessimportance, were the means of convertingwhat had hitherto been to a large extentan experimental machine into a practicalmotive force for manufacturing and otherpurposes. These investigations were madein 1764 or 1765. but it was not till ten ENGINE AND RUNNING GEAR OF STEAM CARRIAGE BY JOHN SCOTT RUSSELL IN 1834. south wall of the Japanese pavilion, iswhat is described as a Japanese word gard
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