I was interested in Mike Gill's comments on water engines made as an aside
to an Egg-ended boiler email. Is there a published history of these engines
in the UK? I am interested in one at Bog Mine in Shropshire in use in 1760
and wonder precisely what type of beast it was.
Mike Shaw
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Gill <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 6:38 PM
Subject: [MINING-HISTORY] Egg-ended boilers
> Thank you everyone who commented on my request for help with egg-ended
> boilers. We now know that ours was on its present site by 1843 (when a
> steam engine was shown on a plan) and we are working hard at narrowing
that
> date. The same shaft had a water engine at the surface in 1704 and one
> underground in 1710.
>
> Clearly such a boiler is not unique, but a survival on site from that
period
> probably is the next best thing to it.
>
> By comparison to the surviving air-receiver at Sir Francis Level in
> Swaledale, on site in late 1869, most of the pressure vessels mentioned
are
> positively modern.
>
> Thanks again.
>
>
> Mike Gill
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