Piston Collection

Deltic engine, final gear is being fitted into a phasing gearing assembly

George Stephensons Rocket - the pre-1923 replica. George Stephensons Rocket Locomotive was built in 1829. Built for the Rainhill Trials held by the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

Kaman HH-43F Huskie 62-4450 (msn 176), fire-fighting and rescue helicopter. Delivered as a Kaman HH-43B Huskie 62-4450 was converted to an HH-43F by replacing the original piston engine with a

Rolls-Royce Merlin 61 Piston-Engine Date: 1942

Maintenance worker greasing pivots and slides
A Railway engineer, wearing no discernible protective clothing, greasing the pivots and slides with a grease gun. Photograph by Heinz Zinram. 1950s

Hawker Fury LA610 of 1945 was powered by a Napier Sabre VI
Hawker Fury, LA610, of 1945 was powered by a Napier Sabre VII which probably made it the fastest piston-powered Hawker aircraft. Date: 1945

Hawker Hector with Napier Dagger III engine
A detail of a Hawker Hector focussing on the Napier Dagger III H-24 air-cooled piston Engine. Developing 805hp the Dagger was the next step for D

Replica of George Stephensons Rocket Locomotive
George Stephensons Rocket Locomotive, built in 1829. Built for the Rainhill Trials held by the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

Rolls-Royce Eagle Viii / 8 V-12 Piston Aero-Engine

Rolls-Royce Falcon 3 / III V-12 Piston Aero-Engine Off-A?
Rolls-Royce Falcon 3 / III V-12 Piston Aero-Engine Off-Aircraft

Farnborough wind tunnel with Bristol Bulldog
The Royal aircraft establishment wind tunnel at Farnborough, with Bristol Type 124 Bulldog TM K3183 mounted on the balance

Currie Jet Wot G-APWT, the second Currie Wot, first flown on 20 October 1959, fitted with a 70hp Rover TP.60/1 turboprop engine in November 1960

James Watt, Scottish engineer, at work on the steam engine. Date: circa 1760s

How a railway train is propelled -- two diagrams of a locomotive engine, showing firebox, boiler, smoke box, steam chamber, cylinder and piston, safety valves, steam whistle and feed pipe. Date: 1841

Westland WS. 55 Series 3 G-APDY
Westland WS.55 Series 3 G-APDY (msn WA/241), at the September 1962 SBAC Farnborough Air-Show. Built as the WS-55 Series 2 demonstrator

Bristol Hercules, 14-cylinder, sleeve-valve radial piston engine. Date: 1940s

Convair 580 N331G (msn 202) Capitalist Tool of Forbes Magazine at London Heathrow Airport. built as a Convair CV-340-79-, powered by Pratt & Whitney R-2800 piston engines

Curtiss XF15C-1 01215 A large mixed-power naval fighter powered by a piston engine and a turbojet engine. 01215, the sole survivor of the three prototypes built

Blackburn YA. 7 WB781
Blackburn YA.7 WB781 (msn 5615), on the Royal Aircraft Establishment Farnborough fire dump (struck off charge on 18 May 1955)

de Havilland Gipsy Six. Six cylinder air-cooled inverted in-line piston Engine, developing 200-220 hp. RHS view Date: 1970s

Marine-Fliegerabteilung - Friedrichshafen FF. 31 274
Marine-Fliegerabteilung - Friedrichshafen FF.31 274 pusher float-plane Two FF.31 float-planes were Built for the Marine-Fliegerabteilung

John Ainslies tile machine 1846
John Ainslies tile machine. Date: 1846

Kaman K-125B N60377 - NX60377
Kaman K-125B N60377 / NX60377 (msn 1). The first helicopter designed and built by (Charles H) Kaman Aircraft Corp, Bradley Field, Windsor Locks CT

Rolls-Royce V-12 Piston Aero-Engine Date: 1940s

Watt steam engine, first type of steam engine
" Watt steam engine, first type of steam engine to make use of steam at a pressure just above atmospheric to drive the piston helped by a partial vacuum

Rolls Royce Eagle H-type 24-cylinder piston engine
Rolls-Royce Eagle H-type 24-cylinder piston engine of 3, 500hp. circa 1947. Port rear quarter. Date: 1947

Junkers Jumo 204 CI 6-cyl vertically opposed piston engine
Junkers Jumo 204 CI six-cylinder vertically opposed piston two-stroke engine of 600-750hp

Instrument for tattooing deserters, 1850 (c). Brass body and trigger with brass D plate and steel spikes. Engraved on side with manufacturers name, Savigny and Company, London

Submerged pump pistons. Supply cities. Engraved by Decreef. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1878

Gresley A4 Pacific Steam Locomotive, . Showing close up of Piston Date: 1950s

Sikorsky-built S-58, XL722, re-engined by Westland with ?
Sikorsky-built S-58, XL722, re-engined by Westland with a Napier Gazelle turboshaft replacing the radial piston engine. June 1957

First flight of the first Short Skyvan G-ASCN
First flight of the first Short Skyvan, G-ASCN, on 17 January 1963 at Queens Island, Belfast, powered by two Continental piston engines. Date: 1963

Small experimental gunpowder engine, showing the bow string mechanism to effect the return stroke of the piston. 1807. From Cayleys original notebook

Piston, drawing by David Joy (?)

Pecussion cap gun (mid. 19th c. ). SPAIN. Ripoll
Pecussion cap gun (mid. 19th c.). SPAIN. Ripoll. Ripoll Ethnographic Museum

Percussion cap handgun (beginning 19th c. ). SPAIN
Percussion cap handgun (beginning 19th c.). SPAIN. Ripoll. Ripoll Ethnographic Museum

Pecussion cap gun (19th c. ). SPAIN. Ripoll. Ripoll
Pecussion cap gun (19th c.). SPAIN. Ripoll. Ripoll Ethnographic Museum

Large output pinion - Deltic engine
Two fitters assemble the large output pinion into the phasing gear case of a Deltic engine Date: 1960

Deltic assembly, in the background are Deltics on revolving cradles

Machine shop, Deltic production, left gearcutting and grinding bay, right machining connecting rods

Liverpool works, general turning and gear grinding lanes
Liverpool works, general turning line on the left, gear cutting and grinding on the right

Oiling a Locomotive Wheel and Piston
A railway engineer oils the end of a piston on an immense steam train wheel. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

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