If this engine is a genuine Boulton and Watt machine, and the date is
appropriate then there is a reasonable chance that drawings of this
machine exist.
I have contacts who can verify this and I will try to establish what we
can about this engine.
Paul Stephens
Chairman, ISSES.
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From: mining-history [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Peter Claughton
Sent: 26 February 2007 17:04
Subject: Boulton and Watt steam pumping engines
In a letter discussing the disposal of material on a mine at Bere
Ferrers, co. Devon in the UK, including a Boulton and Watt steam engine,
in November 1795, Richard Crawshay gives the following instructions -
"the triangles must not be sold till the engine and pipes are taken away
or removed onto Birch where I learn it should have been fix'd
originally."
But what is meant by the term 'triangles'?
Peter
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