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Steam engine and barrels used for Hawkesbury River Railway Bridge project, New South Wales, Australia
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In album: E.K. Morse. Hawkesbury Bridge, N.S.W., page 40. Album documents the role of the Chicago firm Ryland & Morse in constructing the ironwork for the bridge.
Forms part of: Engineering Societies Library Collection (Library of Congress).
Accession box no. DLC/PP-1997:086 ESL 636, Photo 61
Steam Machines, Engines, Locomotives. In 1781 James Watt patented a steam engine that produced continuous rotary motion. Watt's ten-horsepower engines enabled a wide range of manufacturing machinery to be powered. The engines could be sited anywhere that water and coal or wood fuel could be obtained. By 1883, engines that could provide 10,000 hp had become feasible. The steam engine was one of the most important technologies of the Industrial Revolution.
Views and Postcards from Australia and New Zealand, mostly from 1880-1920
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