The Crossness Pumping Station was the key element, housing as it did, four magnificent rotative beam engines built by James Watt and Company. |
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His main backdrop at the museum will be the Easton and Amos rotative beam engine. |
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Railway engineers looked on with envy at these smooth running rotative engines, which required no balancing and had no reciprocating motion to bedevil things. |
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Their distinctive rotative engine was complete by 1787, and 4,000 horsepower was in use by 1800, over half in Lancashire, Staffordshire, London, and Yorkshire. |
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In a rotative beam engine, the piston is mounted vertically, and the piston rod drives the beam as before. |
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This high rotative velocity of the sun must cause an equatorial rise of the solar atmosphere. |
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The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan houses a Watt rotative engine manufactured in 1788 by Charles Summerfield. |
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This removed the rotative stress from the axle which could thus be lighter, and also allowed more flexibility in the location of the power train. |
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He has another rotative scheme to add, which I could have told him of long ago when first invented by William Murdock but I do not think it a matter of much consequence. |
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Watt held patents on key aspects of his engine's design, but his rotative engine was equally restricted by the patent by an other of the simple crank. |
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Residents of Kirklevington Village, Stockton, will be among the first on Teesside to have their waste water treated by two rotative biological contactors. |
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Media related to Rotative beam engines at Wikimedia Commons. |
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