Hi everyone,
Have a look at the Landmark website below, we publish George
Watkins's Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain, which has pix
and accounts of many steam winding engines. George also wrote a
paper for Newcomen Trans about the history of steam winding. This
paper will be included (with bigger-size pix) in the next volume of the
Watkins papers to be published by ISSES (International Stationary
Steam Engine Society).
In the Watkins Collection in English Heritage's National Monuments
Record at Swindon are numerous files with records (including
catalogues) of steam engine makers including many from North
America.These are mostly late C19-mid20 in the date. In addition
there are around 30 bound volumes of trade catalogues. There is a
consolidated catalogue listing the engine-makers files and trade
literature, but it is not on-line so a visit to the search-room is needed.
In addition there are uncatalogued files about winding engines which
have extracts from periodicals like The Engineer.
There is also a file of catalogues and info specifically on steam
logging equipment.
On 18 Jul 2003 at 23:19, Jim Besleme wrote:
Hi All,
As one whose interest is in logging and mining machinery, I have a question.
One of my colleages, who is an expert on the history of the logging winches (
steam donkeys ) used in America, has asked me to see if there is a good book
or books on the history of the steam driven, rotative winch and its sister the
mine winding engine. Surely the British would have published such a book as
you all do such a great job on documenting historical mining machinery.
Her is a snippet from his e mail to me. Any leads would be appreciated.
The steam hoist project is still moving along, but slowly. It looks like
the steam winch went to sea in the 1850s. I have a reference to a
British publication called The Engineer from 1856 that has quite a bit on
steam deck machinery. A Google search turned up nothing on who might
have this magazine on line. Today I found a book called The History of
Cranes which has a few interesting bits. There is a US patent
illustration for William Otis's steam shovel from 1839. While not a
donkey it had all of the eliments-horizontal drum, vertical boiler,
horizontal cylinders. It is credited as "the first machine driven crane
in the world".
A search of the net turned up a lot of British sites on winding engines
(mine hoists) but when I asked several of the museums about publications
on the history of these machines I drew a blank.
Thanks,
Jim Besleme
Columbia, Missouri
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