Crofton Pumping Station
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Crofton Pumping Station, near the village of Great Bedwyn in Wiltshire, England, supplies the summit pound of the Kennet and Avon Canal with water.
The pumping station on a running day in 1999
Wilton Water, the canal and railway from the pumping station
Inside the boilerhouse
The beam gallery with the 1812 engine in operation
Boulton and Watt
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Boulton & Watt was an early British engineering and manufacturing firm in the business of designing and making marine and stationary steam engines. Founded in the English West Midlands around Birmingh
Crofton Pumping Station
…of the Kennet and Avon Canal with water. The steam-powered pumping station is preserved and operates on selected weekends. It contains an operational Boulton & Watt steam engine dating from 1812, making it the oldest working beam engine in the world in its original engine house and capable of doing the job for which…
Statue of Boulton, Watt and Murdoch in Birmingham
A Boulton & Watt blowing engine re-erected on the Dartmouth Circus roundabout on the A38(M) in Birmingham, UK. It was built in 1817 and used in Netherton at the ironworks of M W Grazebrook. (Location: 52°29′33″N 1°53′17″W / 52.492537°N 1.888189°W / 52.492537; -1.888189)
Scientific apparatus designed by Boulton and Watt in preparation of the Pneumatic Institution in Bristol
Hermann Sondermann Familie mit Frau am Spinnrad detail