-
proper winding engines in
modern mining, but use
electric motors that are also
traditionally referred to as
winding engines.
Early winding engines were...
-
cylinder –
breaks up the ore
winding-
engine or whim, 26
inches (660 mm)
cylinder –
raises the ore to the
surface man-
engine, 24
inches (610 mm) cylinder...
- nine
inclined planes:
eight were
engine-powered, one was
operated by a
horse gin. The
Middleton Top
winding engine house at the
summit of
Middleton Incline...
-
became Bestwood Park". The
winding engine house of
Bestwood Colliery in the
Nottinghamshire coalfield with its
vertical steam engine of 1873 has been preserved...
- the rear of the
engine house.
Apart from
using the
winding engine to
raise and
lower the
miners and the coal tubs, the
winding engine would also have...
- the
first translocated buildings (the
railway station and
colliery winding engine)
being erected the
following year. The
first trams began operating on...
-
drain water from
mines in the same period, and as
winding engines. The
first steam-related beam
engine was
developed by
Thomas Newcomen. This was not, strictly...
- surveyor.
Engineman An
engineman drove a
haulage engine; a
winding engineman or
winder drove the
winding engine. Eye or pit-eye The eye or pit-eye is the area...
- They
acquired another winding engine and two
pumping engines. They
publish a newsletter, a
journal and many
books on
Cornish engines, the
mining industry...
-
Pratt &
Whitney radial engine when the XIV-2220 flew
successfully in
trials in 1945 as a
possible upgrade, but the war was
winding down and it did not go...
