Model Engineer Index 1898 to Feb 2025

Year 2023
Date 08-Sep
Volume 231
Issue 4,725
Page 400
Category Historic
Part 50
Title The Stationary Steam Engine
Author Ron Fitzgerald
Notes Smaller Engines and The D-Slide Valve. Takes a look at the history and development of the stationary steam engine. The action of the hypocycloid, Murray's patent 2632, Murray's hypocycloidal engine, Olinthus Gregory's Treatise of Mechanics Vol II, John Farey's engraving of Murray's hyocycloidal engine used at Francis Bewin's tannery, Murray's patent 2632 the slide valves, Murray's tank-bed underslung beam engine, Reuleaux Triangle as shown in Rees' Cyclopedia 1819, 6 hp inclined column engine with details of the Murray slide valve, Farey Treatise, drawing in the Goodrich Collection of a 6hp engine initialled B.H., an A-Frame engine built after 1832, references