Model Engineer Index 1898 to Feb 2025

Year 2023
Date 11-Aug
Volume 231
Issue 4,723
Page 249
Category An Engineer's Day Out
Part 1
Title Sheffield's Kelham Island Museum and the Ken Hawley Collection
Author Roger Backhouse
Notes Returns to Kelham Island Museum to learn about Sheffield's industrial history. Bessemer converter, Richard Gibbon OBE, cable tunnel for Sheffield's tramways, Sheffield's iron and steel history, cementation furnace to make 'blister' steel, crucible steel making, museum attractions, River Don rolling mill engine, model of HMS Benbow, Crossley gas engine, Hadfield's steel works, small rolling mill, the original Stephenson Link valve motion, smaller lathe in recreated workshop, other machine, steam hammer, Joseph Bramah, hydraulic press, Little Mesters workshops, Bailey bridge, watchmaker's shop, cutlery and flatware, Ken Hawley collection, die sinking, buffing and packing