Steam Engines

A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. The steam engine uses the force produced by steam pressure to push a piston back and forth inside a cylinder.

The North Yorkshire Moors Railway near Levisham station.
Garret portable steam engine 6hp single cylinder
Hornsby portable oil engine 6hp 1918
Steam engine 'BoPeep'
Anderton & Rowland's Gondolas steam engine 'the gladiator'
Steam engine 'the vanguard'
Fairground steam engine (1)
Fairground steam engine
Bostock and Wombwells Gigantic combination steam engine
Lister Junior engine
Early grain milling machine
Men engrossed on steam engine
Puffing devil 1801 steam driven machine
Fowler K7 ploughing engines at the Royal Cornwall Show (2)
Fowler K7 ploughing engines at the Royal Cornwall Show (1)
Steam engine detail