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An unusual late 19th-Century working live-steam gas-fired demonstration model steam operated electric generating plant
built by P.Fagg, Chief Engineer, the British Engineerium, Hove, England and comprising a riveted copper vertical firetube boiler with fittings including water gauge with shut-off cocks, pressure gauge, safety, clack and other valves, filler plug, gas burner and main steam line to single cylinder horizontal stationary engine with brass-bound mahogany-lagged cylinder 2in. bore x 3½in. stroke, valve chest and cylinder head draincocks and pipework, centrally mounted valve chest with separate steamways, inlet manifold with regulator and governor valves, cylinder bottle lubricator, studded stuffing boxes, pedestal mounted double bar type crosshead guides, barrelled connecting rod with gibbed and cottered big and little ends with split brasses, rope driven Watt governor and linkage, eccentric driven feed pump and bypass, spoked flywheel and belt driven open frame 12v dynamo, lamp and lamp standard, hand feed pump and Stuart steam operated shuttle valve feed pump with appropriate pipework, the whole finished in olive green and polished brightwork and mounted on a mahogany plinth above a mahogany stand built in the form of a double cupboard with two doors containing water tank and gas bottle and in turn mounted on wheels. Engine/boiler/dynamo measurements -- 35 x 72in.(89 x 123cm.) Measurements overall -- 60 x 77½in. (152.5 x 197cm.)
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