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Watt steam engine, the Glossary

The Watt steam engine design was an invention of James Watt that became synonymous with steam engines during the Industrial Revolution, and it was many years before significantly new designs began to replace the basic Watt design.^[1]

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Beam engines
History of the steam engine
James Watt
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A38(M) motorway

The A38(M), commonly known as the Aston Expressway, is a motorway in Birmingham, England.

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Atmospheric pressure

Atmospheric pressure, also known as air pressure or barometric pressure (after the barometer), is the pressure within the atmosphere of Earth.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England.

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Blowing engine

A blowing engine is a large stationary steam engine or internal combustion engine directly coupled to air pumping cylinders. Watt steam engine and blowing engine are beam engines and stationary steam engines.

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Boulton and Watt

Boulton & Watt was an early British engineering and manufacturing firm in the business of designing and making marine and stationary steam engines. Watt steam engine and Boulton and Watt are history of the steam engine and James Watt.

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Broseley

Broseley is a market town in Shropshire, England, with a population of 4,929 at the 2011 Census and an estimate of 5,022 in 2019.

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Carnot cycle

A Carnot cycle is an ideal thermodynamic cycle proposed by French physicist Sadi Carnot in 1824 and expanded upon by others in the 1830s and 1840s.

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Carron Company

The Carron Company was an ironworks established in 1759 on the banks of the River Carron near Falkirk, in Stirlingshire, Scotland.

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Centrifugal governor

A centrifugal governor is a specific type of governor with a feedback system that controls the speed of an engine by regulating the flow of fuel or working fluid, so as to maintain a near-constant speed. Watt steam engine and centrifugal governor are Scottish inventions.

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Chacewater

Chacewater (Dowr an Chas) is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, UK.

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Condensation

Condensation is the change of the state of matter from the gas phase into the liquid phase, and is the reverse of vaporization.

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Condenser (heat transfer)

In systems involving heat transfer, a condenser is a heat exchanger used to condense a gaseous substance into a liquid state through cooling.

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Corliss steam engine

A Corliss steam engine (or Corliss engine) is a steam engine, fitted with rotary valves and with variable valve timing patented in 1849, invented by and named after the US engineer George Henry Corliss of Providence, Rhode Island. Watt steam engine and Corliss steam engine are history of the steam engine and stationary steam engines.

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Cornwall

Cornwall (Kernow;; or) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Crankshaft

A crankshaft is a mechanical component used in a piston engine to convert the reciprocating motion into rotational motion.

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Crofton Pumping Station

Crofton Pumping Station, near the village of Great Bedwyn in Wiltshire, England, supplies the summit pound of the Kennet and Avon Canal with water.

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Crosshead

In mechanical engineering, a crosshead is a mechanical joint used as part of the slider-crank linkages of long reciprocating engines (either internal combustion or steam) and reciprocating compressors to eliminate sideways force on the piston.

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Cylinder (engine)

In a reciprocating engine, the cylinder is the space in which a piston travels.

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Dearborn, Michigan

Dearborn is a city in Wayne County, Michigan, United States.

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Epicyclic gearing

An epicyclic gear train (also known as a planetary gearset) is a gear reduction assembly consisting of two gears mounted so that the center of one gear (the "planet") revolves around the center of the other (the "sun").

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Flywheel

A flywheel is a mechanical device that uses the conservation of angular momentum to store rotational energy, a form of kinetic energy proportional to the product of its moment of inertia and the square of its rotational speed.

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Heat engine

A heat engine is a system that converts heat to usable energy, particularly mechanical energy, which can then be used to do mechanical work. Watt steam engine and heat engine are thermodynamics.

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Henry Ford

Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist and business magnate.

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Indicator diagram

An indicator diagram is a chart used to measure the thermal, or cylinder, performance of reciprocating steam and internal combustion engines and compressors. Watt steam engine and indicator diagram are thermodynamics.

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Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a period of global transition of the human economy towards more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes that succeeded the Agricultural Revolution.

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Ivan Polzunov

Ivan Ivanovich Polzunov (Иван Иванович Ползунов 1728 – May 27, 1766 n.s.) was a Russian inventor.

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James Watt

James Watt (30 January 1736 (19 January 1736 OS) – 25 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world.

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John Smeaton

John Smeaton (8 June 1724 – 28 October 1792) was an English civil engineer responsible for the design of bridges, canals, harbours and lighthouses.

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John Wilkinson (industrialist)

John "Iron-Mad" Wilkinson (1728 – 14 July 1808) was an English industrialist who pioneered the manufacture of cast iron and the use of cast-iron goods during the Industrial Revolution.

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Kennet and Avon Canal

The Kennet and Avon Canal is a waterway in southern England with an overall length of, made up of two lengths of navigable river linked by a canal.

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Linkage (mechanical)

A mechanical linkage is an assembly of systems connected to manage forces and movement.

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Matthew Boulton

Matthew Boulton (3 September 172817 August 1809) was an English businessman, inventor, mechanical engineer, and silversmith.

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Mining

Mining is the extraction of valuable geological materials and minerals from the surface of the Earth.

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Netherton, West Midlands

Netherton is a town of the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, south of Dudley in the West Midlands of England.

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Newcomen atmospheric engine

The atmospheric engine was invented by Thomas Newcomen in 1712, and is often referred to as the Newcomen fire engine (see below) or simply as a Newcomen engine. Watt steam engine and Newcomen atmospheric engine are beam engines, history of the steam engine, industrial Revolution and stationary steam engines.

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Old Bess (beam engine)

Old Bess is an early beam engine built by the partnership of Boulton and Watt. Watt steam engine and Old Bess (beam engine) are history of the steam engine, industrial Revolution, James Watt and stationary steam engines.

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Organic Rankine cycle

In thermal engineering, the organic Rankine cycle (ORC) is a type of thermodynamic cycle.

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Pantograph (transport)

A pantograph (or "pan" or "panto") is an apparatus mounted on the roof of an electric train, tram or electric bus to collect power through contact with an overhead line.

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Parallel motion linkage

In kinematics, the parallel motion linkage is a six-bar mechanical linkage invented by the Scottish engineer James Watt in 1784 for the double-acting Watt steam engine. Watt steam engine and parallel motion linkage are beam engines and Scottish inventions.

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Piston

A piston is a component of reciprocating engines, reciprocating pumps, gas compressors, hydraulic cylinders and pneumatic cylinders, among other similar mechanisms.

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Piston rod

In a piston engine, a piston rod joins a piston to the crosshead and thus to the connecting rod that drives the crankshaft or (for steam locomotives) the driving wheels.

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Powerhouse Museum

The Powerhouse Museum, formerly known as the Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences (MAAS), is a collection of museums in Sydney, and owned by the Government of New South Wales.

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Pressure measurement

Pressure measurement is the measurement of an applied force by a fluid (liquid or gas) on a surface.

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Proportional–integral–derivative controller

A proportional–integral–derivative controller (PID controller or three-term controller) is a control loop mechanism employing feedback that is widely used in industrial control systems and a variety of other applications requiring continuously modulated control.

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Reciprocating engine

A reciprocating engine, also often known as a piston engine, is typically a heat engine that uses one or more reciprocating pistons to convert high temperature and high pressure into a rotating motion.

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Science Museum, London

The Science Museum is a major museum on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London.

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Shropshire

Shropshire (historically SalopAlso used officially as the name of the county from 1974–1980. The demonym for inhabitants of the county "Salopian" derives from this name. and abbreviated Shrops) is a ceremonial county in the West Midlands of England, on the border with Wales.

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Single- and double-acting cylinders

In mechanical engineering, the cylinders of reciprocating engines are often classified by whether they are single- or double-acting, depending on how the working fluid acts on the piston.

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Smethwick Engine

The Smethwick Engine is a Watt steam engine made by Boulton and Watt, which was installed near Birmingham, England, and was brought into service in May 1779. Watt steam engine and Smethwick Engine are history of the steam engine, industrial Revolution and James Watt.

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Soho Foundry

Soho Foundry is a factory created in 1775 by Matthew Boulton and James Watt and their sons Matthew Robinson Boulton and James Watt Jr. at Smethwick, West Midlands, England, for the manufacture of steam engines. Watt steam engine and Soho Foundry are industrial Revolution.

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Soho, West Midlands

Soho is an area split between the Birmingham and Sandwell metropolitan boroughs of the West Midlands in England.

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Stratford, London

Stratford is a town in East London, England, within the London Borough of Newham.

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Stroke (engine)

In the context of an internal combustion engine, the term stroke has the following related meanings.

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Sun and planet gear

The sun and planet gear is a method of converting reciprocating motion to rotary motion and was used in the first rotative beam engines. Watt steam engine and sun and planet gear are industrial Revolution and Scottish inventions.

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The Henry Ford

The Henry Ford (also known as the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation and Greenfield Village, and as the Edison Institute) is a history museum complex in Dearborn, Michigan, United States, within Metro Detroit.

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Thermodynamics

Thermodynamics is a branch of physics that deals with heat, work, and temperature, and their relation to energy, entropy, and the physical properties of matter and radiation.

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Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum

Thinktank, Birmingham (formerly known as simply Thinktank) is a science museum in Birmingham, England.

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Thomas Newcomen

Thomas Newcomen (February 1664 – 5 August 1729) was an English inventor who created the atmospheric engine, the first practical fuel-burning engine in 1712.

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Thomas Savery

Thomas Savery (c. 1650 – 15 May 1715) was an English inventor and engineer. Watt steam engine and Thomas Savery are history of the steam engine.

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Tipton

Tipton is an industrial town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell in the West Midlands County in England.

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Topography

Topography is the study of the forms and features of land surfaces.

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University of Glasgow

The University of Glasgow (abbreviated as Glas. in post-nominals) is a public research university in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Vacuum

A vacuum (vacuums or vacua) is space devoid of matter.

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Waste heat

Waste heat is heat that is produced by a machine, or other process that uses energy, as a byproduct of doing work. Watt steam engine and Waste heat are thermodynamics.

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Water wheel

A water wheel is a machine for converting the energy of flowing or falling water into useful forms of power, often in a watermill.

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Wheal Busy

Wheal Busy, sometimes called Great Wheal Busy and in its early years known as Chacewater Mine, was a metalliferous mine halfway between Redruth and Truro in the Gwennap mining area of Cornwall, England.

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Whitbread Engine

The Whitbread Engine preserved in the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia, built in 1785, is one of the first rotative steam engines ever built, and is the oldest surviving. Watt steam engine and Whitbread Engine are history of the steam engine, industrial Revolution and James Watt.

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William Murdoch

William Murdoch (sometimes spelled Murdock) (21 August 1754 – 15 November 1839) was a Scottish chemist, inventor, and mechanical engineer.

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Wiltshire

Wiltshire (abbreviated to Wilts) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt_steam_engine

Also known as Boulton & Watt engine, Boulton and Watt steam engine, James Watt engine, James Watt's steam engine, Jet condenser, Separate condenser, Watt engine, Watt's separate condenser, Watt's steam engine.

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Watt steam engine, the Glossary

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See also

Beam engines

History of the steam engine

James Watt

Stationary steam engines

References