Sentence examples for beam engines from inspiring English sources

Sir Joseph Bazalgette's Victorian gem is renowned for its ornate ironwork but it is the four steam-powered beam engines which attracted engineering pilgrims when it first opened in 1865.

From 1971, Minns campaigned energetically to save this magnificent waterworks, complete with a pair of mighty compound beam engines – as much architecture as engineering – installed by various incarnations of the firm Easton and Amos.

The four giant steam-powered beam engines – the real attraction for many of the engineering pilgrims who visit – are surrounded by a blaze of polished brass, and dazzlingly painted cast-iron columns, spiral staircases and screens ornamented with figs, included for their laxative qualities.

They stroll through the council chambers where enthusiasts display an automaton of mine workers, and model traction and beam engines.

Some 130 men, women and children sailed out in spring 1825, with the finest mining technology of the day – Cornish steam beam engines.

The engineer and conservationist Jonathan Minns, who has died aged 75, spent a large part of his adult life happily immersed in a world of steam, encompassing giant Victorian beam engines, traction engines, engines for boats and horse-drawn fire engines.

Engineered in Cornwall, the puppet's rocking neck is a reminder of a giant beam engine, while the shoulders look like sheave wheels on mining headgear and the hands resemble 20th-century excavators.

In 1974 Minns, together with a few friends and £350 capital, saved the Victorian water pumping station a fortnight before demolition, and its superb Easton and Anderson beam engine broken up as scrap.

The site, east of Woolwich and Plumstead marshes, is on wet ground, squeezed up beside the old Crosswell sewage treatment plant where the fine Victorian steam compound rotative beam engine that pumped London's effluence from its centres of population is now being lovingly restored.

Aside from using a fancy new LAAAAZER BEAM engine, the mouse offers a new ergonomic design that is said to reduce wrist tension and increase comfort.

A 20 hp Butterley beam engine driving a 22 feet scoop wheel was installed in 1833.