An old engraving of an outdoor, portable steam engine, here operating a wood-cutting saw by a belt drive. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. This moveable engine would have been transported from location to location and was common in the American west in the 1800s. A worker fuels the boiler using logs (left). Lumber is fed into the saw (right). Wheeled traction-engines are also considered to be portable engines.
An old engraving of an outdoor, portable steam engine, here operating a wood-cutting saw by a belt drive. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. This moveable engine would have been transported from location to location and was common in the American west in the 1800s. A worker fuels the boiler using logs (left). Lumber is fed into the saw (right). Wheeled traction-engines are also considered to be portable engines.
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Location: USA
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