- A
Cornish engine is a type of
steam engine developed in Cornwall, England,
mainly for
pumping water from a mine. It is a form of beam
engine that uses...
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pumping engines on the
Cornish system (often
known as
Cornish engines)
continued to be
built new
throughout the 19th century.
Older Watt
engines were updated...
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existed there. Consequently, the
Cornish beam
engines became world-famous, as they
remain among the most m****ive beam
engines ever constructed.
Because of...
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relatively efficient. The
Cornish engine had
irregular motion and
torque through the cycle,
limiting it
mainly to pumping.
Cornish engines were used in mines...
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engines valve timings can be
driven by
eccentrics or cranks, but in non-rotative beam
engines these options are not available. In the
Cornish engine valves...
- The
Cornish people or
Cornish (
Cornish: Kernowyon, Old English: Cornƿīelisċ) are an
ethnic group native to, or ****ociated with
Cornwall and a recognised...
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governing device used for
early single-acting beam
engines,
particularly atmospheric engines and
Cornish engines. It was a kind of
water clock. The cataract...
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Cornish Pump may
refer to:
Chapin Mine
Steam Pump
Engine, a
steam engine located in Iron Mountain, Michigan,
commonly called The
Cornish Pump
Cornish...
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Savery atmospheric engine (1700)
Newcomen engine (1712) Watt
engine (1775)
Hornblower (1781)
Trevithick (1799)
Woolf (1804)
Cornish engine (1812) McNaught'ed...
- most
pumping engines; at
Hartley both 'inhouse up' and 'inhouse down'
strokes were
driven by the
engine,
whilst in the
usual Cornish engine cycle for beam...
