Beam engine | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-07-05

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00:01:09 1 History
00:04:09 2 Rotative beam engines
00:05:08 2.1 Marine beam engines
00:05:45 3 Compounding
00:07:29 4 McNaught engines
00:08:23 5 Preserved beam engines
00:14:39 6 See also



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A beam engine is a type of steam engine where a pivoted overhead beam is used to apply the force from a vertical piston to a vertical connecting rod. This configuration, with the engine directly driving a pump, was first used by Thomas Newcomen around 1705 to remove water from mines in Cornwall. The efficiency of the engines was improved by engineers including James Watt, who added a separate condenser; Jonathan Hornblower and Arthur Woolf, who compounded the cylinders; and William McNaught, who devised a method of compounding an existing engine.  Beam engines were first used to pump water out of mines or into canals, but could be used to pump water to supplement the flow for a waterwheel powering a mill.

The rotative beam engine is a later design of beam engine where the connecting rod drives a flywheel, by means of a crank (or, historically, by means of a sun and planet gear). These beam engines could be used to directly power the line-shafting in a mill. They also could be used to power steam ships.