Pièce 1999_003_A_001 - Beam Engine

Zone d'identification

Cote

1999_003_A_001

Titre

Beam Engine

Date(s)

  • 1851 (Création/Production)

Niveau de description

Pièce

Étendue matérielle et support

1

Zone du contexte

Nom du producteur

Histoire archivistique

1851: Originally installed at a pumping station at Ely Wells, Cardiff
c1882: Taken out of service
c1882-1888: Moved and installed at Llanishen Reservoir, Cardiff
1921: Taken out of service
1932: Cardiff Water Works Committee agreed to preserve the Engine forRead more

Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert

1999 - On long term loan from National Museum of Wales to the Waterworks Museum - Hereford.
2024 - Ownership transferred from Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales to Waterworks Museum - Hereford.

Zone du contenu et de la structure

Portée et contenu

Installed originally at a pumping station at Ely Wells, Cardiff in 1851 to pump clean drinking water for the citizens of Cardiff. A water pumping station was erected after polluted water from the River Taff had killed one in fifty of the population ofRead more

Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation

Langue des documents

  • anglais

Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques

Beam pumping engine and twin ram pump.
Built to a Simpson design specifically developed for waterworks use.
Power: 15.2 kw (20HP); Efficiency < 10%; Flywheel 3.7 metres (12ft) diameter; plus a Single Ram Pump and a Pressure Vessel.
Now operates by theRead more

Zone des sources complémentaires

Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux

Bay 05

Mots-clés

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Mots-clés - Genre

Zone du contrôle de la description

Identifiant de la description

826

Identifiant du service d'archives

TWMH

Statut

Final

Niveau de détail

Moyen

Langue(s)

  • anglais