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	The Stationary Steam Engine
		The term stationary steam engine relates to any steam engine which was a fixed prime mover as part of an installation and covers a wide variety of purposes and types, some engines would be designed and built for a specific purpose or site, others would be 'off the shelf' as part of a manufacturers range.
		Many different requirements led to an equally diverse range of engine designed and at the height of the steam age it was engaged in water and sewage pumping, drainage of both mine workings and agricultural land, winching and haulage, and driving a huge range of factory or other machinery.
		Where steam pressure was high enough, compounding was used, steam would first be used in a small diameter high pressure cylinder, after it had expanded and used up some of its energy it would be exhausted at lower pressure to a larger cylinder where it could do further work expanding and the pressure lowering further.
	oldenginehouse.users.btopenworld.com /sse.htm (414 words)

	sociology - Steam engine
		Steam engines were used in pumps, locomotive trains and steam ships, and were essential to the Industrial Revolution.
		However steam engines are less favored for automobiles, which are generally powered by internal combustion engines, because steam requires at least thirty seconds (in a flash boiler) or so to develop pressure.
		In practice, a steam engine exhausting the steam to atmosphere will have an efficiency (including the boiler) of 5% but with the addition of a condenser the efficiency is greatly improved to 25% or better.
	www.aboutsociology.com /sociology/Steam_engine (2628 words)

	Stationary Steam Engine Valves
		The admission of steam into the cylinder has to be controlled so that live steam (steam from the boiler) pushes the piston backwards and forwards to obtain a continuous rotary motion to the crank.
		The majority of engines had the valves on the side of the cylinder, which would allow the valve, valve rod and eccentric to be in line.
		Ideally, when the load on the engine varies, the point of cut-off should be adjusted accordingly to vary the ammount of steam required to maintain a near constant speed.
	www.mgsteam.btinternet.co.uk /svalve.htm (1220 words)

	Stationary engine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Victorian era railway engineering, many attempts were made to replace locomotives by stationary engines, on the grounds that it was inefficient to move something as large and heavy as a steam engine around.
		Small stationary engines were frequently used on a farm to drive various kinds of power tools and equipment such as circular saws, pumps, and hay elevators.
		The engines were usually powered by gasoline, but in some cases for economy it was possible to switch over to run on paraffin after the engine had warmed up - to achieve this required a part of the inlet tract to be heated by exhaust gases in order to vaporise the less volatile fuel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stationary_engine (803 words)

	Antique Engines - Harry's Old Engine - Gas Engine Steam Engines
		Engine shows are represented from the Northeast, Southeast, Northwest, Southwest and Midwest.
		There are hundreds of engine photos, many links to CLICK on and a selection of books that feature gasoline and stationary steam engines, antique tractors, steam locomotives and railroading.
		The principles of gas engines and gas producer design, the selection and installation of an engine, conditions of perfect operation, producer gas engines and their possibilities, the care of gas engines and producer gas plants, with a chapter on volatile hydrocarbon and oil engines.
	www.old-engine.com (840 words)

	Stationary Power Plants in California (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		The pipe from the steam dome of the boiler went to the steam engine.
		After the steam was used in the engine, it was exausted usually up a pipe to the roof of the boiler house.
		The Boiler room and the Engine Room are seperated by a wall, this because Boilers are dirty from firing with coal and the steam engine and its Electric Generator need to be kept clean.
	www.geocities.com /espee9164/steam.eng.html (656 words)

	The Cable Car Home Page - When Stationary Steam Engines Powered the Cable
		By the 1870s, the stationary steam engine had been perfected to a degree that it could be easily adopted to the requirements of the emerging cable railroads.
		The two horizontal steam engines were located in front of the winding and idler drums, near the Washington-Mason corner of the building.
		Each pair of engines was connected to its own shaft to transmit the required energy to a large gear, which was connected to the winding drums.
	www.cable-car-guy.com /html/ccsfwhensteam.html (2413 words)

	Stationary Steam Engine Valves
		In later years it proved to be very popular with large steam engine manufacturers because of its reliability and efficient use of steam.
		Inlet valve V1 is rotated to uncover the steam port to the cylinder and the steam forces the piston along the cylinder from left to right.
		The inlet valve V2 is rotated to uncover the steam port to the cylinder and the steam forces the piston along the cylinder, from right to left.
	www.mgsteam.btinternet.co.uk /cvalve.htm (371 words)

	Inventor James Watt Biography
		Watt determined the properties of steam, especially the relation of its density to its temperature and pressure, and designed a separate condensing chamber for the steam engine that prevented enormous losses of steam in the cylinder and enhanced the vacuum conditions.
		The misconception that Watt was the actual inventor of the steam engine arose from the fundamental nature of his contributions to its development.
		It follows the development of reciprocating steam engines, from their earliest forms to the beginning of the twentieth century when they were replaced by steam turbines.
	www.ideafinder.com /history/inventors/watt.htm (1528 words)

	New England Wireless and Steam Museum, Providence Steam Engine Company
		These engines have the automatic cutoff with flat slide valves, both steam and exhaust; steam closing mechanism, safety stop on regulator, and the only liberating valve gear without spring, catch or wedge, thus removing all strain upon the governor while tripping the valves.
		The management are close students of the progress made in mechanical and steam engineering and have included in these engines every improvement that conduces to economy in running and increased horsepower.
		Every engine is severely tested before shipment, and is guaranteed to give satisfaction; while the prices are at bed-rock, and quality considered, are the cheapest quoted by any engine-works in the land.
	users.ids.net /~newsm/steam-engines/providence-steam-engine.html (774 words)

	Roots of Motive Power - Collection - 1914 "Siri" Stationary Steam Engine
		The steam engine had been a landmark on Santa Rosa Avenue as a static display since 1941 when it was removed from a Northern California sawmill by Santa Rosa boilermaker Ras Bjornstad and placed in his yard for display.
		Loren dismantled the engine much the same as Roots did in 1988, except using a smaller crane, he had to separate the steam cylinder from the rest of the bed of the engine.
		I asked why the engine was painted blue and orange, garish colors for a steam engine; Loren said all of Ras's equipment, trucks, air compressors, etc. were painted blue and orange.
	www.rootsofmotivepower.com /html/Collection/Siri/Siri.html (804 words)

	The Pinchbeck Engine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		In the event the long awaited refurbishment of the stationary steam engine collection turned out to be about six months behind schedule and all that was visible was a hallfull of shrouded shapes.
		Not quite stationary steam engines were represented by Colonel Cody's Aeroplane engine and the original engine from the steamer Comet.
		Steam turbines are represented by a small parsons turbine driving a generator.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /stationarysteam/scimus.htm (180 words)

	Stationary steam engine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stationary steam engines are fixed steam engines used for pumping or driving mills and factories, and for power generation.
		They are distinct from locomotive engines used on railways, traction engines for heavy steam haulage on roads, steam motor vehicles, agricultural engines used for ploughing or threshing, and marine engines.
		This series reproduces some 1,500 images from the Steam Engine Record made by George Watkins between 1930 and 1980, which is now in the Watkins Collection at English Heritage's National Monuments Record at Swindon, Wilts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stationary_steam_engine (249 words)

	International Working Stationary Steam Engines
		Steam supply would be courtesy of one of the operational steam locomotives and it would pump water to a water tower.
		I found a brand new stationary steam engine and saw a wider range of machine types than I expected although they were all tandem compounds (both links added 14th December 2005).
		The motive power is generally a steam engine, but the greater economy and facility of oil engines have led to their fairly wide adoption.
	www.internationalsteam.co.uk /mills/livesteam.htm (2352 words)

	Pioneer Power Stationary Steam
		Several large stationary steam engines are located in the Stationary Steam building.
		Some of these engines were originally used to generate electricity and others did jobs such as provide power to a sorghum mill.
		A large Kewanee return flue boiler is used to provide steam to the engines.
	www.pioneerpowershow.com /statsteam.html (85 words)

	How Many Engines are there in New Zealand
		The engine consists of two pairs of compound cylinders, on the Woolf principle, driving a common crankshaft with the flywheel in the centre.
		The largest engine in the collection is a horizontal tandem compound engine built in 1916 by Filer and Stowell Co., Milwaukee, U.S.A. This has Corliss valve cylinders of 16" and 32" bore by 48" stroke and developed 335 hp at 60 rpm on steam at 160 psi.
		The oldest engine in the collection is a 50 hp horizontal duplex built in 1869 by Appleby Brothers, London and supplied to the patent slip at Evans Bay, Wellington.
	www.internationalsteam.co.uk /mills/nzengines.htm (1823 words)

	Steam Engine Project
		The City of Syracuse recently donated a large stationary steam engine to the museum to prevent it from being scrapped in the demolition of the Midtown Plaza Complex.
		The engine was built in 1913, and was used by the L.C. Smith Typewriter Company in their Syracuse plant, which was redeveloped into Midtown Plaza.
		After the boiler house was demolished, the wall to the engine room was torn down, revealing the engine as it was after being prepared for rigging.
	www.eriecanalcamillus.com /steam.htm (394 words)

	Engineering students revamp turn-of-the century steam engine
		Reconditioning a turn-of-the-century steam engine this summer gave a group of New Mexico State University engineering students a fascinating look back in time, said Taylor Smith, a mechanical engineering technology major and one of the students who began the project in June.
		In May, when College of Engineering Dean Jay Jordan asked that the engine be reconditioned and placed on display, the work required repairing decades of neglect and exposure to the elements, Hyde said.
		Because none of the students, nor any of their professors, had ever seen a steam engine of this type in action, in June Hyde and six of the group visited the Antique Gas and Steam Engine Museum in Vista, Calif., which has two working Corliss steam engines.
	www.nmsu.edu /~ucomm/Releases/2001/August2001/steam_engine.html (610 words)

	The Stationary Steam Engine Websites
		On the other sites all the engines present will have been brought in for preservation and the site is thus classed as a museum.
		In some cases engines have been installed in the preservation era to replace original engines that have been removed.
		A number of museums are known to have engines in store but if they are not known to be on display I have not included them.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /fcrammond/page2.htm (570 words)

	WillyGoat, Inc. Product Display
		A steam model with many technical features including a handfeed waterpump.The steam engine can now be filled with water while in operation.
		This is a technically, sophisticated and efficient steam engine, with fl, brass and dark red finish.
		This unit is situated on a raised metal base with double acting reversible brass cylinder, steam jet oiler lubricator and flywheel (3´´D) with grooved pulley.
	www.willygoat.com /catalogsingle.asp?productID=26610 (173 words)

	No. 28: The First American Steam Engine
		In 1760 the young John Adams wrote in his diary that he was struggling to understand the English "fire engines," as steam engines were then called.
		But the historian Carroll Pursell points out that our interest in steam engines was largely academic, because the real thing simply wasn't to be found in the colonies.
		The early 18th-century use of steam engines in England was pretty well limited to keeping water out of the relatively deep British coal and metal mines.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi28.htm (487 words)

	Railroad Timeline History
		First steam engine in America is installed to pump water from a mine.
		Stephenson plans all details of the line, and even designs the bridges, machinery, engines, turntables, switches, and crossings, and is responsible for every part of the work of their construction.
		This engine weighed 6.5 tons, carried 50 pounds of steam and burned a ton of anthracite coal on the round trip.
	www.sdrm.org /history/timeline (2447 words)

	Steam Engine Kits
		This engine is similar to those used to provide line shaft power to factories and mills in the 1800's.
		It is a replica of a rare old steam engine used for various small portable power applications a century ago.
		The original engine was a six horsepower class "F" engine.
	www.blueridgemachinery.com /steam_kits.htm (476 words)

	Wilesco toy steam engines-Live steam powered traction toy engines.
		Clutch engaged gear wheel permitting the use of the machine as a stationary Steam Engine.
		Steam Engine construction worker characters can be used with any of the steam rollers, sold separately.
		A clutch engaged gear wheel permits the use of the engine and the operation of the dynamo either stationary or driving.
	www.neatstuff.net /engines/steamrollers-traction.html (570 words)

	Steam & Engine of Australia - Stationary Engine FAQ
		Steam and Engine of Australia - Stationary Engine FAQ
		This FAQ is written and maintained by using both his own original work and parts of articles posted by members of the Stationary Engine Mailing List, and complete articles contributed by others - see the end of this page and within the individual articles for all acknowledgments.
		Erv Troyer who collated some of the source material for this FAQ from the Stationary Engine Mailing List.
	www.steamengine.com.au /ic/faq (527 words)

	ALHN - America's Age of Steam - Timeline, 1800-1899
		It is primarily used in pneumatic tires for steam carriages.
		He exhibits the first steam locomotive to run on rails in the U.S. (In 1815, he had received a charter from the State of New Jersey to build the first American rail).
		Cincinnati became the first American city to replace volunteers with the horse-drawn steam fire engine and to form a paid fire department.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/topic/steam/Early/Time18.html (1197 words)

	Jerry's Web page for Stationary Steam Engines
		I found a lot of stuff on trains, but finding stuff about stationary engines is a tough one.
		MIKE BROWNS--This is a larger model on the same design as the 104 and now they offer a double-engine version it is also the engine used in Skip's power plants.
		Engines for sale in UK--I don't know how their prices are (They seem scared to post them)But they have them for sale
	www.angelfire.com /mo/allsteamedup (1320 words)

	Live Steam Engines, Wilesco Steam Engine, Wilesco Model Steam Engine, Wilesco Steam Trains, Wilesco Steam Model, ...
		They convert water (steam) into mechanical energy just like the originals.
		This energy can be used to drive our models.
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	www.abcmodelsport.net /c38108/Live-Steam-Engines.html (88 words)

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